National Defence committee  I believe we are, because, of course, I also have faith in the fact that we have highly trained, disciplined and respected Canadian Forces. That's the baseline in terms of the deployment. I think they've also taken the lessons of Afghanistan on board, as well as the uglier deploy

National Defence committee  I would agree with my colleague, of course, but I'm also going to suggest, in terms of your research, that you look at some of the emergent threats around cybersecurity and AI. Increasingly, we've seen countries disrupt elections and so on. You can imagine that these threats are

National Defence committee  It is, if people like you continue to hold our government's feet to the fire on what you expect of it. We can only say, this is how Canada is going to see it and this is how we're going to act. As a respected member of the larger international community, we're going to ask others

National Defence committee  Actually, Bruce, you can go ahead.

National Defence committee  I will echo my colleague on these issues. I think you will not be surprised that sometimes when we hear about high-level training, suddenly people are opting out of it as not the most important that they're undertaking. It seems to me that leadership can say that these are mandat

National Defence committee  There is always much more to do. This is an important question. I think you raised, even in the description of your question, that it includes efforts—through FIs, through the World Bank and so on—on corruption, which is rampant. Many countries in Africa are losing close to a tri

National Defence committee  First of all, thank you for the question. I'll dive into it. In fact, I'm also going to touch really briefly on Kerry Buck, who has just left as our ambassador to NATO and has made quite a difference in terms of taking policy forward. I'll also give a shout-out to my colleague a

National Defence committee  Since I raised that issue, I will concur that it is absolutely possible. Again, a part of what Canada can do—and even you can do it through your own deployments—is bring this to the attention.... Part of this is awareness-building. You said that there are many countries where the

National Defence committee  That's what I'm proposing, that they be funded by Canada.

National Defence committee  Again, your question is very important, and I wish there were a simple answer to it. You will have seen that the largest troop-contributing nations tend to be militaries that don't have the same disciplined command and control structure. They may not be as well equipped even to

National Defence committee  This is part of a comprehensive approach, from dealing with failing and fragile states to general governance and development. In a way, our investments—including Canada's, but those of the UN as a whole—are in development. I'm going to come back to the sustainable development goa

National Defence committee  First of all, it behooves us to see women as agents broadly, as you've expressed there. I will attempt to give an answer to that. My first response would be that we need the data. We need to do the research. We're at the learning spot. In fact, this is a place where Canada could

National Defence committee  Thank you for your question. I think it's an important one. I'm going to dive in and say that, in some ways, Resolution 1325 is more about the empowerment of women. Resolution 1889 is also interesting and important; however, it talks about women solely as victims. I think we hav

National Defence committee  It's an important question. I think it will make quite a difference. It's creating new norms, in a way, a new normative process to say that women should be there. I spoke earlier about some of those risks—for example, that we don't push women who are in militaries to do two deplo

National Defence committee  This is not insignificant. Canada isn't the only country that believes in feminism and has expectations of the UN, and DPKO in particular. I'm happy to say that, as you may know, Jean-Pierre Lacroix was here as part of the UN Defence Ministerial, and he's taken these issues on bo