Thank you for your question.
The recruiting process is a four-part process. First of all is attraction and then the actual processing that you are referring to, selection, and then the enrolment process.
With regard to the processing, five main events need to happen. As part of attraction, first the applicant needs to apply to us. Once we start that dialogue with the applicant, he needs to show us some documents to confirm his age, citizenship, schooling, and so on and so forth. That's usually a very fast process.
Then we need to do what we call a CFAT, the Canadian Forces aptitude test, which tests the cognitive ability of the applicant, which will give us an idea of the applicant's ability to succeed with the basic training. We also need to do a medical process, which, if the individual, the applicant, is good medically, goes rather quickly, and then we can carry on with the process. If there is any issue medically, then there is a back and forth between the medical chain and the applicant to see if we can proceed with the application or we need to close the file.
Once that is done, there is also a process whereby we need to ensure that the individual, the applicant, is reliable and then grant him reliability status to make sure that he has no criminal history and that his credit record is clean, and we check with his references to make sure that he is a worthy individual to serve in the Canadian Armed Forces.