Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to follow up on what my colleague was just talking about.
Colonel Noonan, in terms of preventing losing female serving members, if someone joins the Canadian Armed Forces, moves up the ranks and then decides, “I'd like to have a family as well”.... As you know, more often than not, women have that second shift where they're responsible for finding day care and taking care of the family, and so on and so forth.
If a female member wants to have multiple children while in the Canadian Armed Forces and they decide they don't want to deploy.... We're talking about universality of service, but it may be something that's temporary in terms of, “I have three children under the age of five and I don't want to deploy.”
Are there accommodations made so that the member can still meet requirements, but also have a family at the same time? Could you talk to that?