Thank you very much.
I think it was in the honourable member McGuire's riding this summer that a number of the military families were concerned about the same soldier having to go back to Afghanistan two, three, four times, because the mission has now been prolonged to 2009. I really did feel they were very concerned that Canada's commitment there is extraordinarily difficult, because of sort of drawing Kandahar as the area we have the responsibility for.
In your paper on the three-D approach, is there a way, on the ground, that you have an ability to provide feedback to the Government of Canada and to the people of Canada as to what rebalancing would look like? If the people of Canada are as uncomfortable with the combat mission as I think they are, how would we change our responsibility in Kandahar and maybe take a different part of the country for a while? How would we decide to spend more money on development or diplomacy instead of on the military--again, the story is that while we've been doing this mission, 200 or 300 schools have blown up--which I think is what Canadians thought we were there to do.