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View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks very much for being here.
What would be your percentage of off-base rental housing, roughly?
View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
That's exactly what my next question would have been.
Now, in terms of the way in which we run our bases these days, there tend to be high points and low points over a number of years. Therefore, you no doubt have surpluses on many bases--and shortages, too. You say that you have a certain inventory there that is not in good condition and that you are planning on eliminating totally. Obviously you can't sell it to anyone, because it's on a base, which means you're going to scrap it. But you also have another inventory, and I imagine a large inventory, of empty buildings. What happens to those? Are they just sitting there? Since civilians can't rent those properties that are on the base, would we not maybe be better off looking at moving our housing outside the base, and then, when they are empty for periods of years, renting them to civilians?
View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
Mr. Bachand mentioned Vancouver. I'm thinking of Jericho and the opportunities we're looking at there. There are DND buildings on the base, but there's also part of your operation on the base. Are there any thoughts of selling off the housing units?
View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
That's it, Mr. Chair.
View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
Just a short question. Is there going to be a Canadian military band? And what would be the make-up, and how are the costs handled on that?
View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you, gentlemen, for being here.
General Leslie, it's nice to see you again. Of course, we all had great reports of what did go on over there, and we thank you very much. I think it is important that you be here, though. I know you've been speaking around the country quite a bit and that you have got the message out, but I think it is important that you be here to get it on the record.
As you mentioned, we're going into a defence review. I think this gives us a great opportunity, because once the defence review gets through NDHQ, it will end up coming here, and we'll be discussing it here and talking to witnesses. This gives us good background on what you need, particularly in the changing environment of war fighting, peacekeeping...and the list goes on forever.
You were the commander of quite a few different countries at one point under NATO. One of the things we're looking at in NATO right now is how to find a way to homogenize the rules of engagement of all of the different countries. I guess that's my question to you. How did you find working with all of those different countries while having a whole series of rules of engagement that they had to work with?
View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
Through you, Mr. Chair, right now the NATO transformation is working very much on trying to make that NATO template that you had a little more solid, so that it's a little easier as countries go in.
But actually, you were also working with the Partnership for Peace group. Were they able to use the same template, or did you have a lot of difficulty getting them to fit?
View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
After this, would you have done a debriefing with NATO as far as giving them, how would I say, a little information to help out in what they're working on as far as transformation?
View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
The reservists that you had in theatre, you said most of them were used for CIMIC. But were there also some who were totally fitted into units and doing exactly the same jobs?
View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
The ramped-up training they do, is it a shorter period than what you're doing with the regulars going in?
View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Ambassador, for being here. I apologize for having to leave for a couple of minutes, and I hope I don't ask you a question that's already been asked. I'll probably be going along the same line as Mr. Bachand. I'll try to keep them nice and short.
You talked in the beginning about your involvement with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and seminars for newly elected parliamentarians. We've been asked to finance some of these seminars. Are we talking about the same seminars? Are you giving them for the parliamentary assembly?
View David Price Profile
Lib. (QC)
You're definitely a large part of it.
It's interesting that you mentioned Ukraine, because I was there about a year ago talking to their defence committee. They themselves recognize, of course, the problem they have there. Their defence committee is controlled by the military; it's not democratic. You're from the Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. When we look at NATO, we say one of the main rules for a new country coming into NATO is that it has to be a democracy, and the military has to be under civil control. I'm just wondering if there is a difference there between democratic control of armed forces and....
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Lib. (QC)
You're talking as if your involvement is actually right in the country. We're talking about Ukraine. Right now we're looking at Canada's interest in the development of Afghanistan and where we're going there. Would your organization be directly in there working with potential parliamentarians? I say potential parliamentarians also, not only the ones that are already elected.
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