Just let me describe it. With our conscript system, we are able to call up to duty, if we want to, in the worst case you can imagine, up to 10 million reservists. Every young male has served in our country. But on the other hand, to be honest and to be sure, sir, a soldier who has served for only nine months cannot identify himself with the forces in the same way as your professionals or your retired soldiers do, or the huge reserve component that you have in Canada. The identification with veterans who are in your society and the support your society gives those veterans is incredibly high, I think, from the things I have viewed so far here in Canada.
On the other hand, we have the principle of the citizen in uniform. This is an old principle from Prussian times, from Frederick the Great or from Scharnhorst, who was mentioned before. The thinking behind every male citizen of a country is that he is a native defender of his country too. That's the principle we are following.