Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm sorry, I can't let that go by. That statement by Mr. Coderre was absolute rubbish. As General Duval has said, these flights happen all the time. They're training exercises for the Russians. The reaction is training exercises for us. They're valuable in that respect. There's no requirement for them to notify. It would be nice if they did. All that was made clear.
There's a lot of misunderstanding on the other side about the difference between START—which has absolutely nothing to do with these missions, nothing to do with the close-to-territory radio procedures that are carried out; this is apples and oranges.... I suggest there's a lot of confusion in the committee about some of those things.
Mr. Chair, I think what would be helpful is to bring a map to the committee next time, just for the people to see visually where the CADIZ and so on are. That would be helpful, because there's been a bit of confusion on it.
I'll ask General Duval a final question, and it goes back to what I just said. If we have foreign military aircraft, Russia's or anybody else's, operating towards our airspace, or towards our airspace of interest in the CADIZ, do you consider it prudent and necessary to be able to detect them and intercept them and make sure they know that we know they're there and that we can be on scene to do whatever it is we need to do?