National Defence committee  We already have reservists sailing in those ships. I think we would start to know if there were any cultural differences. I don't foresee any, because we have been working so closely together across the naval enterprise for many years now. That said, it could possibly be part o

National Defence committee  That's an interesting question. I don't have specific knowledge about that. I would refer you to the Canadian Forces health services studies. To the best of my knowledge there is no increased incidence of any type of mental health issues in the reserve population.

National Defence committee  I'm not aware of any.

National Defence committee  If it were under a CJOC mission, I would think they would have exactly the same benefits and status as the rest of their colleagues who are deployed right now.

National Defence committee  I'm not certain of the case. I think establishing that would be an individual career management issue.

National Defence committee  That's a great question. We are looking at something similar to that in the establishment review, but we don't look at it in terms of a culture change; we look at it more as the governance by which we ensure that reservists have access to the training they require, receive prop

National Defence committee  That's in fact the mechanism that was proposed in that directive. Having all of the primary reserve budgets held in a corporate account was deliberate, so that it would be very clear that the money that had been allocated to the reserves was being spent by the reserves.

National Defence committee  These are the types of questions that were.... The establishment review was preoccupied with meeting the missions as we understand them right now. I think any change in roles in the future is certainly going to be the purview of government, and I would refer the questions in that

National Defence committee  I'm not sure if I understand your question—decentralization of operations?

National Defence committee  Yes, I think the chief was just orienting. The mission of the naval reserve, of course, is just to generate the individual sailors who are ready to be employed at sea and ashore, so I don't see any difference to our mission or how we deliver training within the naval reserve un

National Defence committee  I doubt that. I think it's more a question of being aware that there is a naval reserve that could afford fantastic personal development opportunities and employment opportunities. I believe it's more a need for us to make sure that we are seen in our communities, that people und

National Defence committee  No longer. It's part of the naval training system. It is one of the campuses of the naval training system, run by the navy as a whole.

National Defence committee  It can happen at any of the above, depending on what the particular training is and what level it's at. Sailors, through their careers, may be at any one of the schools across the country. Chief, I don't know if you can add some detail on that.

National Defence committee  Certainly in the last 20 years that has been the case, in the sense that the preponderance of the training and developing courses and whatnot were executed through the fleet schools. The regenerative training, however, traditionally has been done at the naval reserve unit level.

National Defence committee  Our budget is through the navy and is managed by us. However, it is now, as a result of the chief of the defence staff's directive of a couple of years ago, managed at the corporate level and is a corporate fund. It comes to us through the navy, but it sits in a corporate fund, a