Thank you, Mr. Chair.
General, I just want to say that 50 years ago tomorrow, when John Kennedy was shot, I was in basic training, marching around the parade square in Chilliwack. We saw the B-52s going overhead and we thought we had something very serious happening, but I don't want to digress too far.
In labour law when you negotiate a collective agreement, there's a thing called a notwithstanding clause, which is very similar in ideas, I think, to clause 11. From the notwithstanding clause, it says that according to the collective agreement, we must abide by the rules as stated in the collective agreement, notwithstanding article 1, which says we can't do this, but maybe in these circumstances we can.
What I'm concerned about here is if in theatre you had command of joint forces, and you had the pressures from below to use these munitions—not you yourself necessarily, but a future commander—what would this do to undercut your ability to say, “No, we won't use these”, if there's that kind of notwithstanding clause built into this?