Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for joining us again today. I was at the Canada-China committee meeting last night and probably won't ask very much about China today, because we have a variety of issues that are important for us to discuss today.
You mentioned, of course, the activity of your department in repatriating Canadians. I think that was a success story for Canada and for the officials, your government and of course with the co-operation of yourself and the parliamentary secretary in particular, and I want to compliment you for that effort. A lot of people's lives were helped by that, so thank you for that.
I want to ask first of all about the most recent international crisis, between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which has resulted, at least, in a ceasefire and a potential settlement and resolution of these long-standing issues between the two parties.
One of the issues that came up was the failure, or rather, the lack of any real knowledge of what was going on in this situation and in these two countries because of Canada's lack of a mission in either Armenia or Azerbaijan, Armenia being looked after through Moscow and Azerbaijan through Ankara in Turkey.
I'm wondering if Canada is prepared to revisit that and ensure that it can actually play some positive role on the ground in assisting these parties to resolve some of the major outstanding issues that still arise as a result of the ceasefire.