My second question deals with a follow-up to Mr. Bachand. The Americans are there now in kind of a surge, similar to what took place in Iraq; that was the idea behind it. Also, there's a lot of speculation about Americans really increasing their involvement in southern Afghanistan. At this point it's just speculation about the long term, because I think the marines who are there now are only guaranteed for seven months or something. It's not for a long time.
From your perspective, if the Americans become much more heavily involved with the ISAF mission in the south, how will that play out with Canada's participation under the NATO banner if the Americans have a much, much larger participation?
The second question is around the surge that's taking place now. What do you think the effect of the surge will be in the long term, not the short term?