National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the question. That tour in Korea gave me invaluable experience, a front-row seat to what was happening in the security environment in the Asia-Pacific. What we see are countries, authoritarian states, achieving their national objectives, changing the ru

National Defence committee  We are working on trying to prolong the posting duration in various locations so we don't have to move as frequently. We're asking the hard questions. Is it absolutely necessary that this individual and their family have to move this summer? If not, let's leave them in location.

National Defence committee  I would just add the cost of not doing this. As the threat increases, we see potential adversaries making significant investments in military technology, hypersonic weapons and the like, which increasingly put our continent at risk. If we take a look, we see that potential advers

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, that was a military decision based on the uncertainties in the spring of 2020, not knowing what trajectory the pandemic would take. The machine restarted again in June, with the personnel production pipeline, the recruiting, the training, etc. We've learned and we've

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, I don't know.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, let me just clarify that we have not been in a no-train situation for some time now. We paused operations for three to four months in the spring of 2020, but now we are in an operational mode where we're training, doing exercises and recruiting. As I mentioned earlier,

National Defence committee  In the armed forces, we don't have a cyber regiment. Several years ago, we stood up a cyber operator occupation. That occupation continues to grow, and it has to continue to grow because so much of our future is going to be based on what those very talented individuals do.

National Defence committee  Yes. In fact, they are in operations every day. They train every day. They train with the director of CSE's personnel. They work and are employed with CSE personnel, as well. They work with our allies. They train with our allies. However, have we broken the code completely on th

National Defence committee  Yes, you posed a question that keeps me awake at night, because those threats are real and our ability to respond to them is challenged by the challenges to our readiness: challenges to our equipment readiness and challenges to our numbers. The reconstitution of the Canadian Arme

Afghanistan committee  The fact that we are well connected with our allies, Mr. Chair, means that this operation was well coordinated from an international multinational perspective. I have lots of details and lessons learned with respect to working with allies, which we'll be able to share, understand

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, I'll talk about our intelligence assessment and how that evolved after the Doha agreement was signed. From the announcement of the U.S. withdrawal, the situation in that country deteriorated, and our assessment evolved with it. We have to remember that a lot of our i

Afghanistan committee  I'll add that our role in Poland is one of a humanitarian nature. We are there supporting the Polish Territorial Defence Forces in the staffing of their reception centres. Some have asked why we weren't there right away. The simple answer is we weren't needed. The Poles didn't

Afghanistan committee  The deputy minister is right. We have not received an opinion on that.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, thanks for the opportunity to add some more detail to the minister's statement. I think we need to look at this in two periods—pre-August 15, before Kabul fell to the Taliban, and then post-August 15. Before August 15, yes, there were some flights that were not at ful

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, the answer is yes. The situation on the ground was fluid. One of the lessons we've taken away from this is the delegation of authority to the lowest levels. Our commanders and our young leaders on the ground made decisions at times to take Afghans who weren't on the l