It being 3:30, we'll call to order the seventeenth meeting of the Standing Committee on National Defence, dealing with our study of the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan.
Today we'd like to welcome, from DND, Colonel Capstick, the former commander of the strategic advisory team in Afghanistan.
Sir, we're very pleased that you could be with us today. If you have some opening remarks, we'd like to hear those and then we'll move into our rounds of questioning.
The floor is yours, sir.