Thank you, Chair.
I want to thank the minister and our guests, Mr. Edwards and Mr. Hirst, for being here today.
I too will go to a number of different files. As you can appreciate, there's a lot to talk about. I'll pick up where one of my colleagues left off, with regard to Mr. Khadr.
We know that at some point our government has to do something. To date, we've had our government simply say.... Well, we know the line; my friend the parliamentary secretary has read the line well. But at some point Canadians want to know when the time is going to come—because it's coming, Minister—that you'll have to do something other than say we're waiting for the exercise to finish in the United States.
I want to start off by asking whether any departmental officials have explored the options for repatriating Mr. Khadr. Maybe we can start there.