Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank you very much for coming.
Your position over here is very difficult. I'll be very blunt about it. We're talking about detainee questions here. The Department of Foreign Affairs, the Canadian Forces, and the whole-of-government approach has been to work on improving the systems and everything.
We just heard testimony from a previous witness. Of course, we had a lot of questions about their testimony as well--somebody's opinion. But to bring a CSIS intelligence individual here and try to get something out of you, which the other government of Canada....
I want to join with my colleagues, all of us on this side, and say what a tremendous job you are doing, and highlight the fact that you do operate under supervision. You are not someone who has a free hand. You have rules and procedures, including the overview of this thing.
I have a very simple question here--