Mr. Speaker, recruitment and retention is a problem not only for us in the Canadian forces but for all of our allies as well. We have entered into an aggressive program of recruitment and also into changing some of the terms of service to try to keep a higher level of retention.
I am pleased to report that in terms of recruitment we are far surpassing the numbers we expected at this point in time. For example, on regular forces, after just six months over 85% of our annual quota has been reached. In terms of reserves, we are already 50% over what we wanted for the entire year.