Sure. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I, too, would appreciate getting some briefings on this. I don't think we need to get one every week. Given the fact that we've been spending every committee meeting studying the mission in Afghanistan, I think as a committee we are as well briefed as anybody, from non-government organization officials, from other government officials, to Department of National Defence people.
We have been parading out the top brass here, and we have the Minister of National Defence and the Chief of the Defence Staff coming in the near future, if I remember correctly.
Given the fact that we are going to be producing a report on this sometime, and I don't think we've even clarified when that's going to be, I am just wondering if the intent of this is to add more information to our study. Or is this just a briefing? Is this briefing material going to be included in the study? And if so, doesn't that alter our ability as a committee to finalize a report and table it in the House of Commons, if we're going to keep on talking about this and receiving briefings? Is that the intent, to have these briefings included in the report? Or is this something extraneous to that?