National Defence committee  I will.

National Defence committee  “Spring offensive” is a term that comes up every year. It's spring, they come out of the mountains, and the fighting season picks back up. Right now there's a bit of an opium harvest going on. We know that's going to finish in a couple of weeks. We anticipate that the pace of thi

National Defence committee  They are intending to fully step out and take advantage of those additional forces to have the effect on the insurgency that we want to achieve.

National Defence committee  In the Zhari they have the ability to move their kandaks around. As you know, we basically have a brigade of 2,500, which is three full kandaks and the combat service support and operational support.

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  General Marc Lessard is a NATO commander.

National Defence committee  They have taken responsibility for Zhari. We have enablers that they do not have—artillery, engineers, and other pieces. But it is their responsibility. Our OMLTs are there. All those kandaks that are operating, those OMLTs, are in place, but it is their command and control that

National Defence committee  Let me think about that for a second. Rather than give you an off-the-top answer, I know that we operate where 90% of the Afghans live, in Kandahar province. I'd rather give you a more fulsome answer, so I'll take that on notice and I'll provide that.

National Defence committee  That's true.

National Defence committee  He responds to General Dan McNeill, the commander of ISAF, who takes his instructions from Brunssum, which is NATO headquarters in Holland.

National Defence committee  He happens to be a Canadian. As you know, it is a rotated command. It was a Brit before that, and it was Dutch before that. The first Canadian commander of RC South was General David Fraser.

National Defence committee  Marines are kind of like a self-contained organization when they show up. They bring all their toys with them--guns, armoured vehicles, helicopters, UAVs, everything. So when they come to a place to work, they really are a self-contained, all-encompassing piece. We work so well

National Defence committee  Okay.

National Defence committee  The answer's yes.

National Defence committee  I might be after you tell me what it is.