Yes, it's the standard we set, and we set it to ensure that our members are proficient in the use of their weapons for their own protection and that of the citizens. My reply is not a defensive reply. It's the reality of our ability to train those members. For example, if I was to recertify today, and a year from now the training schedule for the unit I'm in was not scheduled until June, it would look like I failed to qualify within a year. That would be true. However, in the RCMP's ability to train we are restricted by our access to proper ranges. Usually we train in outdoor facilities. Our training in most of the country is between May and October. We train using a large number of outdoor ranges.
In that regard, our training is limited to about six months a year. We try to push through as many people as possible in that time period. Now, some of those people may not be working during that time. Some are off duty, sick, or on maternity or paternity leave. We haven't washed those numbers down to remove them from the 13%. We are extremely confident that an acceptable number of operational, deployable front-line personnel completes their requalification during that one-year period. It's the reality that we work with. If we could train in facilities 12 months a year, five days a week, we would do that.