That's a great question, and that's a question the Department of National Defence does not want me to answer, because there is legal documentation out there that will help us classify missions and it comes from the organizations we're a part of—the United Nations and NATO.
First off, on the question concerning Australia, there is a Commonwealth insurance model that has three tiers. Australia uses bronze, silver and gold. Their soldiers who get injured in a war are awarded a gold insurance card—the colour is actually gold—and that gives them more benefits. They get that because they're in a place where there's more disease and more risk of death, and they're being asked to do things that will often result in serious injury or harm.
Those are what the UN calls chapter VII missions. Are you familiar with those? As a rule-of-law country, Canada will never go into a foreign country with a weapon unless the United Nations provides a United Nations resolution clearly stating that this is a chapter VI or chapter VII mission. Those chapter VI and chapter VII missions each have legal documents to indicate when we are allowed to shoot people. These legal documents are what we use to determine whether it's a peacekeeping mission or a war.
For peacekeeping missions they invite you into the country to do peacekeeping. In a war they don't invite you into the country, and you're going there to take their property from them. They each have inherent documentation with them, and that documentation is what the Australian government uses to classify its missions.
If you're in service in your country and you hurt yourself falling down in your office, you get roughly the same thing that an Australian would get on workplace safety. That's normal. When you are placed on active service and you go to do peacekeeping and you're not really being shot at but there are some risks, you get more money. When you go to war and you're being told that, out of the 12 of you, two of you will likely die today and four of you are going to be injured and that we need to take that hill, that's gold-level insurance, and that's what Canada calls wartime, special duty and service.
The only difference between our system and the Australian system is that we only ever get to the bottom two tiers. The Government of Canada always stops us from getting to wartime service, never brings it up and hopes that it will die and go away, and that Mike and Harold and I will never come and speak to members of Parliament about it.