Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you very much, Madam Minister.
I'd also like to thank the witnesses for their work and their military service. I'm very grateful to them for taking the time to attend today's committee meeting.
Madam Minister, in your opening remarks, you mentioned recommendation 18. It was originally the Conservatives' idea to move a motion to create the Special Committee on Afghanistan, but you should know that the Bloc Québécois introduced an amendment that, with the concurrence of the Conservatives, called for the committee to be tasked with issuing recommendations with a focus on what needed to be done not only to help Afghans in the immediate term, when the committee was sitting, but also to improve our response to other international crises of this kind in the future.
Recommendation 18 calls for you to establish a whole-of-government team. How are intergovernmental discussions about this team going?