Mr. Speaker, the department under the present general, General Baril, has indicated that it is combat ready. We have 3,100 Canadian forces personnel presently on duty throughout the world doing a good job, a job for which they should be praised and thanked, not some hollow rhetoric.
I have never been allowed to say this, but it seems that as soon as one becomes a retired general one receives with the first pension cheque some type of conscience that one did not have when in the CF.