National Defence committee  I might just correct you, Mrs. Gallant. It's $1 million and seven years for an officer, roughly, depending on the trade. It's much more expensive if you're a fighter pilot, for instance. What happens if you have people who are unvaccinated is shown by the aircraft carriers in bo

National Defence committee  Ms. O'Connell, you hit the nail on the head here. We need a different recruiting model. I'll give you some examples. We need more capacity for direct entry. One of the ways Germany fills, for instance, some of its cyber-trades is by creating a direct entry program for people

National Defence committee  Ms. Mathyssen, we have two significant deficits here that we can identify. One is that this country does not have a systematic network of institutes that do political education. In Germany, for instance, each of the political parties has a taxpayer-funded foundation. Those foun

National Defence committee  The psychological screening process is important, but I think we need to look at the impact of deployment on people. We need better research and data on the resilience of people when we send them on deployment, because we see the damage done to many people by their own deployment

National Defence committee  In my view, it is inevitable in any institution that some individuals will express unacceptable views. This inevitably poses a considerable challenge for people in uniform, who must remain neutral. I would say that the Canadian Armed Forces have done a good job in identifying a

National Defence committee  We have a shortfall of 7,500 members in the organization. That's over 10% of the CAF's authorized troop strength. There are simply not enough resources to attract talent. The case in point is the CAF's cyber capability. The CAF is competing against 200,000 unfilled cyber position

National Defence committee  The military tends to hire people who are what's known as “left of good” and it trains them up. That's why the military has a very robust education, training and socialization mechanism. It's because of the uniqueness of what it does and because its soldiers aren't born; they're

National Defence committee  Thank you. My apologies for the disruption before. I thank you for this opportunity to testify once again before the committee. I will answer your questions in both official languages, but I will testify in English. It's an interesting day to be testifying on readiness, given