Foreign Affairs committee  Right.

Foreign Affairs committee  Will I send them to you, or just give them to you right now?

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not too sure who you're talking about, because we have a lot of westerners registered with us.

Foreign Affairs committee  Recruiting has been a real challenge. Although, again, $650,000 may sound like a lot of money, one of the real challenges for us is to function with that. As many requests as we get, there's not a lot of money left. There are two sides: the need for extra money for advertising, and if you advertise in a certain way, getting a whole raft of people registering.

Foreign Affairs committee  Our staff right now is running in the range of 25 individuals, but that covers the whole of the spectrum. The roster team has five full-timers and about three or four part-timers, but we also use a lot of stringers, so to speak, for screening, for example. We use a former police officer to screen the police officers registering with us.

Foreign Affairs committee  Quite honestly, I'm not too sure what Canada Corps is. It has been morphing over the years. I don't think anybody was too sure right at the beginning, and I don't think anybody is too sure now exactly what it is. What's in Canada Corps? On the Ukraine deployment, all of us were three days into the deployment—me, Foreign Affairs, CIDA—and we would meet every day.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'd like to think we are lean and mean, and I'd like to stay lean and mean. Staying lean and mean means you're not getting too much funding, and do you know what? I'm largely happy with the funding we're getting. Will we get better? Yes, we will, because there will be more and more Canadians who register with us.

Foreign Affairs committee  Is this the funding for the rapid recruitment assistance program?

Foreign Affairs committee  That's for the rapid recruitment assistance program, from Foreign Affairs, to assist the international community, both UN and others.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, it is.

Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, on the funding, thank you for bringing that up. In your opening remarks you talked about that funding being $500,000. That had been flatlined for four years, but this year Foreign Affairs fortunately agreed that we had just taken on so much more. That money is used for the recruitment of people to the roster and the screening of individuals on the roster, which is a major challenge for us because we don't put anybody forward unless they have been screened.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's mostly salaries.

Foreign Affairs committee  Where does CANADEM leave off and Elections Canada or MINUSTAH or whoever start? We basically leave off when the plane takes off. In other words, we get them onto the plane. We may get them onto the plane with weapons, we may get them on the plane with equipment, we may get them on the plane with training, but all that happens before they get onto the plane.

Foreign Affairs committee  It has been variable, but that will cut back twelve interns for us. However, we're looking at alternate ways of funding that. In fact, I will say without hesitation, to any individual who wants to start their international career, that if they're trying to decide whether they should take a master's in something or whether they should pay for their own internship, they should self-fund their own internship.

Foreign Affairs committee  We're truly responsive to what the request is. In other words, if we get a request and they're looking for someone who is a former—