I'm sharing my time with Mr. Allen.
My comments are more congratulatory, ministers, on the wonderful efforts dealing with the typhoon in the Philippines. We always know we have the best of soldiers, the best of military, the best of intentions and people to do the job, but you also need the best of tools. I can remember back when I first came here, and we did not. We would have to borrow or rent aircraft from the Russians or borrow it from the Americans, and the difficulty with that is that when you have disasters like this, all of those resources and assets are engaged and it's very difficult to rent them or borrow them.
For the Canadian government to have the foresight and vision to plan ahead, to have these assets in place so that they're not only there for our military needs in Afghanistan, but also there for rapid deployment in circumstances like the typhoon, I certainly want to congratulate everybody for the magnificent effort that has been done and for the planning and foresight that made this possible to do and to deploy.
I'll pass it to you.