National Defence committee  I don't know what their end-state armed forces are to look like in terms of numbers, but we could certainly get that to you if it's of interest.

National Defence committee  It's important to recognize we have two requirements. We have the requirements to defend the homeland and North America in the context of NORAD. That's a requirement. Then we have a requirement to support our NATO obligations. The intended purchase of the Australian fighter jets

National Defence committee  I know we're here to talk about NATO, but certainly in terms of the contributions we've made I'm very proud of what the Canadian Armed Forces has done and continues to do vis-à-vis the mission in Iraq. I look at our approach and it's very much a regional approach, so doing great

National Defence committee  Certainly, you would have noted in our latest defence policy a commitment to introduce a new cyber-operator trade within the Canadian Armed Forces. It's very nascent, we've just started to build that pool of individuals. This is a challenge for all organizations, the need to buil

National Defence committee  It's very early. I would say for that particular trade, I think there's only a handful of folks who have been brought into the trade today.

National Defence committee  You know I love the hockey analogies. I would be a little bit cheeky, if I may. I think at the end of the day it's not about the capital equipment. I think at the end of the day what Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces bring abroad, and I've been there, is the human capital.

National Defence committee  I think we'd say the air force.

National Defence committee  That's not for the record.

National Defence committee  No, and that is....

National Defence committee  I look at Afghanistan, if I may. Certainly our ability to bring joint Army/Navy/Air Force/soft together with a command and control machine to fuse that and plug it into a coalition, we do that very well. When Canada gets the call, you can be certain that we will be able to push

National Defence committee  Absolutely. Thanks for the question.

National Defence committee  You mean vis-à-vis the Middle East, absolutely. I'll start that, certainly. I think we've seen NATO contributing to, specifically, the mission in Iraq and Syria. We've seen it in a number of different ways, the use of the NATO AWACS aircraft contributing to the command and contr

National Defence committee  That might be best taken on notice, so we can come back with the exact numbers. In terms of the numbers currently under Operation REASSURANCE, certainly with our ship's company persistently deployed, plus our 455 people, we are, day to day, generally 700 people. When we have our

National Defence committee  I can kick-start. Certainly, I think one of the points I would make first and foremost as we look at our new defence policy, the clarity of capability investments we have laid out in our defence policy over the next 20 years fully costed. Certainly, this as we ramp on those syste

National Defence committee  Okay, it's a great question. I would say broadly speaking one of my roles for the Chief of Defence Staff is to constantly be taking stock of what we have on the shelf. The responsibility of the Chief of Defence Staff, an awesome one, is to provide military advice to the Governmen