Roughly, we get 44,000 people who apply to become members of the armed forces. Last year, we recruited 4,542. We neck down from those 44,000 to that number of qualified, talented, motivated applicants to get in the Canadian Armed Forces. Why do they drop off? There are various reasons. It's very hard to collect data, because a lot of the time the applicant loses interest or stops his application file and we don't know why. The medical process is between the applicant and the medical chain. Hard data on how the funnel necks down is very hard to get.
On May 3rd, 2017. See this statement in context.