Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, gentlemen, for joining us.
My first question is for the minister.
Minister, there has been a lot of talk in Parliament and other places about balance, or a perceived lack of balance, in Canada's position in this mission. I'm going to make a statement or suggestion and ask for your comment. We're part of a coalition of 36 or 37 countries that as a group, as a coalition, is carrying out defence, development, and diplomacy. Is it fair to say that because of where we're geographically situated in the country and the particular capability of the force that we have there, we are providing more of the defence than the development and the diplomacy, but that the mission is balanced in terms of the overall coalition? After all, it's the overall coalition that's going to accomplish the aim.