Thank you, Chair.
I need a clarification on something. In the action plan, referencing paragraph 5.34 the issue is:
The Canadian Army should require Army Reserve groups to formally confirm that they are prepared to support domestic missions.
That's the OAG's recommendation. Then you responded by saying:
Agreed. The Canadian Army will review the process and develop a better-documented confirmation method. The Army conducts training on an annual basis for the 10 Territorial Battalion Groups and the four Arctic Company Response Groups. This training may be verbally confirmed through the chain of command, which is found to be sufficient for training objectives.
Help me understand. The whole problem was that it wasn't a formal confirmation. Anyway, help me understand why the verbal confirmation is okay, when a written one is what we were looking for, or am I misunderstanding?