Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Ministers.
I also want to thank the department officials as well for the great work they do. Procurement is an important area of our economy. In my riding of Kelowna—Lake Country, Kelowna Flightcraft, an armour works company, was recently a supporter looking to provide services to our men and women who serve not only nationally, but abroad, and I want to thank them as well for their dedication.
My cousin's husband is back in Afghanistan for the third tour of duty right now.
Minister MacKay, you talked in your opening comments about how the Canadian Forces are fighting a very brutal enemy in Afghanistan. As we move closer to July 31 and the deadline to end our combat mission, maybe you can enlighten the committee a little bit about exactly where the troops will be located for the training mission and what they will be doing. Can you confirm whether the troops will be out of Kandahar by the end of July?