Russ Hiebert at the National Defence Committee

On September 20th, 2006. See this statement in context.

September 20th, 2006 / 4:35 p.m.

Conservative

Russ Hiebert Conservative South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale, BC

Thank you.

First of all, I would like to extend my appreciation to all three of our guests for making an appearance before this committee today.

I have a follow-up question for Mr. Maloney, but first of all, I have a question for Lieutenant-General Evraire, and possibly Colonel MacDonald, if you'd like to comment as well.

As you know, the leader of the NDP recently demanded that Canada remove our troops from Afghanistan. I'm wondering if you could tell me what effect that would have on the morale for our troops and, specifically, if such statements place our front-line troops at any greater security risk?

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