Public Accounts committee  If I may, there are opportunities for civilians to take courses. They do a lot in distance learning and through other programs, particularly on the post-grad side. I'd have to check. I don't have the figures for tuition. I haven't done the reimbursement of tuition for someone rec

Public Accounts committee  The majority of students are military. A master's degree like the Master of Defence Studies is an RMC degree, it's offered through the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, so that matches up with our mid-grade major, like colonel, professional military education program. Other mas

Public Accounts committee  We don't have many foreign students at the military college. We have a foreign program where students operate out of RMC Saint-Jean because of capacity, and they do most of their distance learning program through RMC. We have an exchange program of one semester with a few militar

Public Accounts committee  To be clear, the chief of defence staff gave me clear direction. My mandate is to deliver results on these reports, and he told me I would be there for three years at least to make good on that, and you'll see the issuance of these reports on that. He's reduced my scope of respon

Public Accounts committee  If they do not obtain their diploma, what career management options do they have? They can leave the college. In that case, depending on the reasons why they did not obtain their diploma, they may have to reimburse part of the tuition fees for the time they were in college. Othe

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for your question. These are indeed avenues we are exploring. I am from Gaspé myself. I lived in Gaspé and in Carleton-sur-Mer in the detachment.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, and those avenues are important. Some of this new technology is used in co-operation with other organizations, such as the Royal Military College St-Jean, which collaborates on quite a large scale with the Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu CEGEP.

Public Accounts committee  As for accreditation, we want to make sure that if people leave the college, they can transition easily and obtain their CEGEP diploma, for instance. Professors from both campuses also collaborate. We also work with Queen's University, in Kingston. The networks are growing. We ha

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely.

Public Accounts committee  It's about eight years. I'd have to double-check that.

Public Accounts committee  It was nine in my time, but programs do change slightly. As far as your question is concerned, Mr. Chair, as it relates to the balance and the academic versus the military culture going there, so we need a balance. We do have some military professors on the faculty. The faculty

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for this excellent question. Yes, some positions have been granted based on merit in the past. That's the predominant method. However, we must also challenge our cadets. They must all be in command positions so that we can evaluate their behaviour, guide them and mento

Public Accounts committee  Students who are assigned to a command post will have a record of good behaviour. That is one of the criteria we established since the report was published.

Public Accounts committee  That was the case last summer. We made these changes after the investigation in order to ensure that these situations will not reoccur.

Public Accounts committee  I did not say it was resolved; I said that the selection process was settled. Each session, when senior officer-cadets are replaced, we will see whether there were mistakes. We will learn from these mistakes and correct the process as we were asked to do.