National Defence committee  You are absolutely right. For the Canadian Armed Forces to maintain its edge and to be prepared to respond to emerging threats, our members have to continually train for the different types of environments they might be deployed into. Initially, when we knew little about this dis

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, I would like to thank the member for his question. I will get started with the response to this question and will also turn it over to Admiral Patterson to see if she wants to expand on this. What I would say categorically is that throughout Operation Laser, our wo

National Defence committee  This is absolutely something that our chief of the defence staff has been considering with the senior leadership of the Canadian Armed Forces. On the one hand, of course, our nation, as is the case with all of our allies, is confronting a rapidly evolving security situation glob

National Defence committee  Good morning, Madam Chair. Before I get started, I want to confirm that you can hear me.

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, thank you for the invitation to discuss the role of the Department of National Defence, or DND, and the Canadian Armed Forces, or CAF, in the whole-of-government response to the evolving COVID-19 situation and the impact of COVID-19 on domestic and international oper