Madam Chair, I think it's just that. This is a good career for them. We are seized with making a difference and making sure that they can not only see themselves in the organization, but truly feel part of it.
I'll be quite frank here. One of the challenges we have is attraction. Over the course of the pandemic, our recruiting throughput has greatly shrunk. Over the course of the last year, it's about a third of what we normally have, so we're in a bit of a recruiting deficit right now. We are still very much prioritizing diversity, but the challenge is attraction.
I'll go back to one of my previous comments about this becoming a national security issue, existential for us, because of the increasing threats in our society. Therefore, I believe this recruiting challenge goes beyond the military, and I would ask all of you as parliamentarians to engage with your constituents and help us with recruiting diversity into our ranks, help us with recruiting all Canadians and showing that this is service to their country and we need them.