National Defence committee  I think you're already seeing significant changes. You'll soon see the new profession of arms manual being released, “CAF Ethos: Trusted to Serve”. You'll see the Canadian Armed Forces journey, which is the new health and wellness strategy. I think the vast majority of women, me

National Defence committee  I'd be able to obtain those numbers for you. I don't have those numbers with me. The military personnel generation group has those numbers. Of course, systematically, that's a challenge for the organization, because there's a significant demographic decline in Atlantic Canada a

National Defence committee  There are certainly countries that use permanent residency conditions as an expedited mechanism to obtain citizenship. I think as long as that doesn't compromise our ability to obtain proper security clearances and to do proper resilience assessments on the individuals who join,

National Defence committee  Luckily, Mr. Motz, I'm a prof, so nobody will ever put me in charge of anything. That's the [Inaudible—Editor] thing about the organization.

National Defence committee  Look, I have all the admiration in the world for the many people who are really trying to make this work, but I do think it takes far too long to get people into our system, and it takes too long to get people through the training system. This is where Ms. Winger's comments are r

National Defence committee  I would say it's less about which policies per se need to go, but the ability to actually.... If you're putting people in the training system, it means that those people aren't there to modernize your policies. Part of this is a staffing issue; there are only so many people to go

National Defence committee  Ms. Mathyssen, if I may, I'm currently on a hiring committee for professors at RMC. At a civilian university, this takes three months. At RMC, it takes us 18 months, from flash to bang, to hire a new professor—six times as long. I'll leave it at that.

National Defence committee  This is your junior leadership and management cadre that ultimately needs to bring your organization along. That's the cadre you're relying on to make operations happen and do a lot of that sustainment and maintenance. It's heavily engaged in the regeneration component of the for

National Defence committee  I would say, Ms. Normandin, that the forces are now strongly focused on regenerating the Canadian Armed Forces. The effort being invested is tremendous. The issue is that the staff shortage is leading to other aspects of the Canadian Armed Forces being neglected. We always have

National Defence committee  The military likes to say that soldiers aren't born; they're made. I think, in many ways, this also applies to the modern Canadian Armed Forces. It might apply more so because the organization needs to train, generate the formation, as they say in French, the individuals they nee

National Defence committee  That is an excellent question, Ms. Normandin. I will send to the committee my study on this issue. There are three options when it comes to this. First, there is the American option. We could create an organization like the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, which is a

National Defence committee  I think the Canadian Armed Forces is a foreign policy tool, possibly the government's most important foreign policy tool. I'm not sure that's widely understood by Canadians or even on the Hill. I think what we saw during Afghanistan was attention by the government to the Canadia

National Defence committee  We need a very targeted recruitment and relationship-building mechanism. We have a challenge in that the forces aren't really present in those areas where there's the greatest demographic growth and the greatest representation, both in general of the Canadian Armed Forces recruit

National Defence committee  One of the problems the organization had is that it didn't even know exactly what its shortfalls were or how to remedy them. It now has the analytics capability to know exactly where its people are and what is required. These are very distinct challenges, the recruitment challe

National Defence committee  In the kinetic domain, universality of service will remain, I think, indispensable because you will run into morale issues if some people get deployed and others don't. But there are, for instance.... You mentioned IT. IT is a particular challenge because we now have a cybertrad