To be clear, what I'm advocating for is this: When members of Parliament decide to place us on active service, the Department of National Defence should not then, in turn, come in and say, “Well, we're going to reduce this one and we're going to reduce that one. This one is not going to be....”
Active service is active service. I've been on peacekeeping missions, which you consider to be benign and not really dangerous. In Rwanda, I was forced to live with the genocidaires for two months on my own—with four other guys. In the context of war, it wasn't a war. However, while I was under active service, Roméo Dallaire could give me whatever command he wanted to and I was forced to do it.