Thank you very much for your question, Mr. Chair and members of the committee.
As was said, my name is Brigadier-General Luc Girouard. Important to answering this question is the fact that I'm representing the strategic joint staff, which is one of the highest organizational levels in the Canadian Armed Forces, providing advice to our chief of the defence staff.
Our mission at the strategic joint staff is to provide timely and effective military analysis, decision support and command enablement to the chief of the defence staff, who is the principal military adviser to the Government of Canada.
That aspect is important to how I will proceed with the following answer. I believe the question centred around the main differences between wartime service and special duty service.