But actually, I agree exactly with what the minister said. We have no need to make any recommendation to him on anything to do with aircraft.
Sir, I'll come back to your question.
Let me just say on the media that we have seen some very balanced coverage that talks about this complex mission and all the dynamics of it in an incredible way. We've seen some of Lisa LaFlamme's reporting, and reporting from Christie Blatchford and a variety of others who have been balanced and complete and have been out there with our soldiers, have been on the reconstruction projects, and have been with Afghans.
I've seen some of the other stuff. All they do is stay inside the wire. I had at a bunch of journalists when I was there 10 days ago. I talked to them and asked if they had been outside the wire. Most of them said no, or very little. They all desperately wanted to go out; they had the opportunity to go; head offices back here in Canada in some of the major media outlets were refusing to permit them to do their jobs. They worry about casualties, obviously. They are worried about insurance rates, certainly, and perhaps other things.
We have been encouraging those head offices to change that policy.