National Defence committee  Thank you to both of you for being here today; and thank you, Major-General, for your excellent presentation. I'm actually going to begin where Mr. Spengemann left off. We have a feminist foreign policy now that's been put in place. How has that impacted the type of training that's under way right now, or has nothing changed?

National Defence committee  Thank you. In your presentation you mentioned that at this point, the Peace Support Training Centre is providing the first two rotations of gender awareness advisers to the commander of Task Force Mali. Could you elaborate on that?

National Defence committee  Oh, I'm being cut off. Okay, thank you.

National Defence committee  Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. Thank you for your excellent presentation. It has actually brought out a lot of my own emotions, because I've only ever worked in male-dominated professions, and I've always been the minority. For a lot of your comments, it's been either “I totally disagree” or “I totally agree”, so there has been a lot of emotion for me.

National Defence committee  That's helpful in terms of my own thinking. We're looking at peacekeeping missions. Sitting here for two seconds and listening to you, I understand there's a colossal number of factors that make them successful or not. There are the complexity factors. There's the culture of the peacekeeping teams.