National Defence committee  Yes, all kinds of things are there. I encourage people to visit our new recruitment website. You'll see what young people are seeing right now. It's interesting for us. That's the first thing—

National Defence committee  We can talk about cadets for these two individuals. I want to come back quickly to the recruitment age. You're asking me if we're targeting a specific age. The answer is no. However, we must respect the law. Sixteen year-olds can enter the reserves with the permission of their p

National Defence committee  We don't have the exact figures. There are more young men in the cadet corps, but there are still a lot of young women. Two weeks ago, I was in Borden—

National Defence committee  —and I inspected a parade of cadet corps. The commander and sergeant major of the youth cadet corps were female. They are very successful in this area.

National Defence committee  Within the fighter community of the air force, their diversity?

National Defence committee  Yes. We haven't broken down, if you will, the diversity aspect between that specific segment. However, when we're trying to increase the diversity of the Canadian Armed Forces, we're looking to do so clear across the entire Canadian Armed Forces. I do have statistics that can br

National Defence committee  I'm happy to table those, because we have the breakdown of what it is. Of course, the whole idea of how we're going to increase it is to go forward as we have discussed here, to put in place the goals and to have the process by which we specifically go and do targeted recruiting

National Defence committee  Marketing is very important, but TV isn't as popular as it once was. Social media have become very important. We've noted that we get results when we use social media. The young and not so young are interested in what we post. In our social media campaigns, we can see people's in

National Defence committee  Yes, we're considering them. In December 2018, the Canadian Armed Forces transition group was created under the leadership of General Misener. The group is currently assessing how to make this transition in the Canadian Armed Forces. Some exit interviews have already been conduc

National Defence committee  I'll start by answering, but I invite my colleagues to join the discussion. Every year and even every day, the Canadian Armed Forces make sure that we talk about the mental health and well-being of individuals. In the fall of 2017, we implemented a suicide prevention strategy w

National Defence committee  It's more than just the studies at this point. You're asking about the implementation, and you're absolutely right. Part of it we referred to earlier on when we talked about more use of social media or virtual platforms, if you will. We find we're getting great success from that.

National Defence committee  Yes, actually we do that specific research. You raise a very good point of what we have as a potential block. Again, DGMPRA does research on diversity and inclusion, to find out about it. One of the research projects I just finished in 2018 is about recruiting and employing wome

National Defence committee  No, this is the point, and I won't belabour it as I see the chair's white square. It comes down to how we're structuring Operation Generation, how we're actually going to get people to fill that, based on what we're finding in this research. It's almost like the intelligence asp

National Defence committee  Yes, it can.

National Defence committee  Absolutely. It's the concept of universality of service. We expect that all our members will be able to deploy and go on operations when we tell them to, and oftentimes on very short notice. It is our mandate to have folks who can do it. Whenever we have individuals who prese