Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you as well for your presentation.
You are a lieutenant general with considerable experience. No doubt you have commanded many such operations. To date, the mission to Afghanistan has claimed the lives of a number of our soldiers.
In your opinion, how have these deaths affected the morale of Canadian troops in the field? Is morale affected for only one day, or for longer than that? Are measures in place to counter these losses that can undermine the morale of surviving soldiers?