Thank you, Madam Chair.
Madam Chair, I would love to thank the honourable minister for appearing before the committee. It has always been an honour to work with him in his role as a minister and in his role as a parliamentary secretary before that.
Madam Chair, the Special Committee on Afghanistan has done great work. Members of all different stripes came together and made those recommendations. Those recommendations are being put in place.
I have some questions before I give the minister plenty of time to respond to any of the issues he wanted to speak to but was cut off from during other remarks. First, how is this legislation better than the status quo? That is what I would like to hear and have Canadians listen to.