National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  Personally, to be fair about this, I'd ask them about Vimy first.

National Defence committee  Then Hill 70, they were all interlocked. Also ask them about how we invented the storm troopers that in fact made the Canadian corps in that last 100 days a significant capability.

National Defence committee  Yes, but integrate it. It's not a standalone. We use the term “whole of government”. We used to use the three Ds: diplomacy, defence and development. It's a capability that we want to continue to nurture. We put together an enormous amount of government-wide capabilities during

National Defence committee  Given the way the deployment is planned, that would be a very remote possibility. That has not happened so far. We have nonetheless told the armed forces that we could travel to Edmonton to provide training before its members leave. We wanted to convey the content to them. They

National Defence committee  Thank you.

National Defence committee  The overriding lesson that's not been addressed is political will. We have not seen the political will to want to engage in complex and ambiguous missions in order to stabilize scenarios and prevent the destruction of human beings. Until the political will comes aboard and until

National Defence committee  Correct.

National Defence committee  I think one of the important things is that politicians have a fundamental role of informing their constituents, but informing their constituents includes security matters. I've had, I don't know how many times over my years as a General, and also in the Senate, politicians tel

National Defence committee  Take note, because that's the answer. That is an overriding factor. You're absolutely right. Not only that but we keep them in a false premise of the past. All the peacekeeping we used to do during the Cold War, when people wanted to do peacekeeping, chapter VI, was barely 3% of

National Defence committee  Very rapidly, when we were doing training in Sierra Leone, preparing a battalion to go into Somalia at the time, I believe, the British were part of the whole training program. The Sierra Leoneans wanted our package to be included in that, which was about three days and scenario-

National Defence committee  The Canadian Army holds an annual meeting with its generals about training. Two or three years ago, there was a meeting at the University of New Brunswick, and Ms. Whitman was invited to the symposium on content. She described the program we offer, and the generals in attendance

National Defence committee  I heard your questions. First, it might have taken them one day to train 250 people, but those 250 people did not sit there all day. They had an information session of about 45 minutes per group. They were given a Power Point presentation for that information session and were t

National Defence committee  Go ahead. That is its role.

National Defence committee  I was commanding a brigade then, yes.