Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank the general for being here.
I would like to go back to a conversation we previously had with Colonel Brian Irwin, who is Director of NATO Policy at the Department of National Defence. We discussed the question of Canada's withdrawal from two NATO programs, the AWACS and the UAVs. Since you were in a very good position to assess the effectiveness of those two programs as a result of your information-gathering and targeting in Libya, I would like you to give us your comments on the consequences that withdrawal could have or has already had. What are your personal observations?