Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am going to start by asking you two questions. If I have time, I would like to be able to ask a third. I will be brief.
General, in your presentation, you mentioned the detection of homemade bombs. Canadian soldiers have sustained proportionately more loss of life than any other country, and the losses can be attributed to homemade bombs. The equipment for detecting those bombs was defective and we are told that it still is today. If that is so, I would like to know how we can justify that sad state of affairs.
The Prime Minister made a statement in the House last January in which he said that the army never told the government that it had stopped handing over detainees to Afghan authorities. I would like to know who is telling the truth. Who is right and who is wrong here?