National Defence committee  There's a term that we use, “mission creep”, where you take an organization and then your mandate starts to expand. What happens is that you water down your mission. The mission of our Canadian Armed Forces is to defend our country, and I believe wholeheartedly in that. Leapfrogging from that question, Mr.

National Defence committee  Maybe I'll rephrase the question. Would you say that those issues that you deal with are reoccurring?

National Defence committee  Okay, thank you. I have one last question for the professor. With the idea that the military has a mandate and that we have some challenges across this nation, would you say that it would be acceptable to have a separate organization outside of the military to deal with this, rather than crossing mandates and creating grey lines?

National Defence committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for allowing me to be here today. Being new here, I'd like to get some of the concepts that have been shared to see if I'm on the same page philosophically. Some of my colleagues have posed some questions that I'm having some challenges accepting.