Sir, I think the kinds of instructions I signed off on December 3, 2008 were really clear, that the Canadian Forces would not be an active party to this whatsoever.
I would also say to you that whenever we send our men and women on whatever duty, whether it be United Nations duty, whether it be a NATO duty, or whether it be as they are today in the multinational force and observers in the Sinai, the Chief of the Defence Staff retains the national command of those men and women.
While we provide those soldiers, sailors, airmen and women to the other forces under operational command or operational control, those are all trumped by national command, so the order that they will not participate will actually trump all others.