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National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. It's a very topical question. One thing I'm seized with is the information theatre being the central theatre of conflict, essentially, in a way that it wasn't even 20 or 30 years ago. While I didn't say anything in my opening comments about countering

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  This is not specific to Iraq, but four or five days ago I instituted for my command, which includes all deployed operations, very stringent mitigation measures. For example, all non-essential travel that's not directly related to a core mission's output is cancelled until further

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  On the ground the Canadian Armed Forces, in Operation Impact, don't have responsibility for a geographical area or a functional area. We're not in charge of fires for the whole coalition. We don't have to look after Anbar province. It's not structured that way, so we're working o

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  No, sir. You're obviously very au fait in what's happening there. There's nothing that jumps to mind beyond what I said about being very concerned about that particular group.

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  That's a very broad question, and I wouldn't be able to do it complete justice. At the tactical level, there is an enterprise that exists on the ground. It's called Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve. The nations that form that coalition share intelligence. In

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  Yes, and we have a special relationship and we share special intelligence, if you will, and that's extremely helpful. That's probably among the most valuable. I am always concerned about the level of sharing, especially with our American counterparts. I have asked General McKenz

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  Yes, exactly. It's a whole-of-government effort ultimately and goes right to the intelligence assessment organization within the Privy Council Office. It's absolutely more than just a military thing.

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  From my experience, I'll tell a story about diversity from where I grew up in JTF2. A diverse force in the military improves the possibility of successful mission outcomes. There's no question about that. It's not just gender diversity. There are many forms of diversity: operatio

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  Thank you for your question. The answer is no. Even our special forces aren't doing what we call in English “accompany”. They train, advise and assist. They don't accompany. On the side of the traditional armed forces, we obviously do not carry out operations with the Iraqis

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  Yes, sir. I can tell you our commander is going to be there until December 2020 and General Carignan is going to hand off to the Danes, I think, to Denmark, at that time.

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  Yes, sir, we will. There will be some adjustments to what we committed to when we commanded the mission—the helicopters, the additional three helicopters in Taji and the force protection company in Baghdad. We will take a fresh look at all of our commitments in light of no longer

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  I can't speak in excruciating detail about that. I command 20 missions and that is one small part of one mission, but when I was there a month or two ago, I sat and had lunch with our officer who is in charge of the FET element, a PPCLI lieutenant, and I walked away very impresse

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  Today we have about 40 people in Lebanon and just under 30 in Jordan. That's today, but these numbers flex. The thing I would point out is that for all of these environments, whether it's Iraq, Jordan or Lebanon, they're never static. They're always evolving. When we think of t

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. I'd respectfully say that's beyond my purview and operational command.

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau

National Defence committee  There are in the order of 70,000 PMF Shia militia groups. There's a significant number of them. The ones that concern us the most number about 30,000, groups like Kataib Hezbollah and those sorts of groups that are very closely aligned with Iran. They are a very big concern. In f

March 9th, 2020Committee meeting

LGen Mike Rouleau