Mr. Minister, I just want to put on the record that I actually beg to differ with you that this is the same mission that was started by our government. The mission is totally out of focus. CIDA money isn't flowing to the PRT in an adequate fashion. All we've been doing for the last several months is war fighting. Security was part of this mission. This mission is absolutely unbalanced.
I have a question I really want to ask you. When we were talking about what preparations and discussions you may have had when you placed the motion for extension before the House, it is obviously now clear that General Hillier and others in the military are having to take extra special measures to ensure that we don't fall short in terms of the numbers of troops required to actually fulfill the mission until 2009.
The question I have, sir, is this. Did you really consider the issue of how stretched we might be with the capabilities we had if you extended the mission in a rush fashion, as you did, to 2009?