Thank you, Mr. Chair. Gentlemen, thank you for being here with us today.
I'd like to start with Mr. Siebert. You made a number of interesting comments about military action in Mali. You obviously heard what Mr. Fowler had to say on Tuesday. He went into some detail about how he thought Canada should have a greater military role than we're currently doing there, that we should have special forces there working alongside French special forces, and we should provide logistics and intelligence support.
Basically he was encouraging us to get more involved in fighting the terrorists, rooting out the terrorists, specifically with a focus, I think, on the people who perhaps had kidnapped him and caused so much grief to him and Mr. Guay. We certainly sympathize with that. I can certainly understand that. It's the way I'd feel I guess if I went through what he went through.
But I sort of hear something different from you. You mentioned a comment about.... I'll come back to it. Mr. Bradet made the comment I want to come back to.
I want to hear from you in terms of what you think about what Canada is currently doing in supporting the French army and the Malian army in the fight against the terrorists, and stabilizing, and bringing peace to northern Mali, and whether you agree with Mr. Fowler that Canada should be sending more military personnel there to take on a greater role.