National Defence committee  Okay. Overall, it's fantastic. I've been in the service for 33 years. I spent the first 25 years in the submarine service. As a young lad in Toronto, I joined the navy to become a submarine captain, and the training is, in short, phenomenal. There is training and there is educat

National Defence committee  On the former I can speak; on the latter, I can't, really. I left the submarine service about 10 years ago, and I left the general navy ranks, so to speak, seven years ago. With respect to the overall maritime component of the Canadian Armed Forces, if I understand your questio

National Defence committee  They contribute greatly. It depends on the exact mission set that we would be talking about, for example, but in the spectrum of operations that SOF would be involved in, it could be from very discrete, non-kinetic small teams up to support to larger CF operations. We work extens

National Defence committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair and honourable committee members, thank you for the chance to speak to you today on chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear—commonly referred to as CBRN—threats to Canada in the context of our Canadian special operations forces role in responding to