We have some challenges right now in recruiting, because it is a priority of the chaplain general for us to be able to sustain the recruiting, and we want to keep fostering diversity, to have more women within the chaplaincy. I failed to mention, in terms of diversity, that we have a full-time indigenous adviser at the office of the chaplain general, who is doing fantastic work. For us diversity is not only for all the world religions that are outside, but the spiritual and religious diversity we have here at home, with the richness of the indigenous spiritual outlook and practices. Recruiting is an issue in that sense.
Another thing we have identified as a strategic priority for us is our chaplain school that we have in Borden. It provides excellent training in ethics, counselling, religious pluralism, and also for what the chaplains can bring in terms of analysis on religious area assessment and religious leaders' engagement in theatres of operation.
We're asking to say that the school will be a gem for chaplain training because we have chaplains coming from all over the world to see how we do business, because we are unique for being fully integrated with the three arms and the environment and working so well and so peacefully with a diversity of beliefs as well as honouring non-believers. We're unique in the world.
We're also asking to be able to say that the chaplain school will provide training and education not only for chaplains, but to become the centre of excellence for the whole of the Canadian Armed Forces on moral and spiritual development. We have asked for more resources to do this, but it takes some time to get this.