Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. And General MacKenzie, it's nice to see you again.
I certainly concur with your first statement that we should do foreign policy before we do defence. Obviously we have to know what our vital interests are in order to then have the appropriate capabilities to move forward.
You talked about peacekeeping and myth, and as you know, myths are often far more powerful than reality. This committee is obviously seized with, and we've actually tailored our whole study on, the premise that Canadian soldiers will be involved in international peace operations after 2011. Maybe we are prisoners of that myth, because we continue to think we're going to, in some kind of form, do peacekeeping.
I guess the question I have for you first of all is this. If you look at Afghanistan, some would argue it's a conflict that is characteristic of conflicts to come. In other words, it's both peace enforcement and an issue of trying to develop a peace. Afghanistan may be, then, the test, and the Canadian public doesn't understand, as it did not understand in Somalia, that there's traditional peacekeeping and then there's peacemaking.
Could you comment on that and where you see us going? Then I want to talk to you about a naval-centric armed forces.