As all three of us as well as Mr. Gignac have mentioned, the importance of humanitarian assistance is that it be delivered based on humanitarian principles as well as the humanitarian imperative. I think the key for parliamentarians, really, is that as we look into the immediate future, when we look at considering what the Canadian Forces mission will look like after the initial first six months, we need to have that conversation separately from considerations on humanitarian assistance. Whatever we're doing as the Government of Canada, when it comes to humanitarian assistance, it needs to reflect the premise of the humanitarian imperative. We need to make the decision on humanitarian need based on the dynamic situation on the ground. We need to make the decision on whatever our Canadian Forces may be engaged in entirely distinct from that.
