I call the meeting to order, it being 3:30 plus a bit. This is meeting 19 of our study on the Canadian Forces involvement in Afghanistan.
Today we have the first of the half-hour briefings we asked for. With us is Brigadier-General A. J. Howard, director general of operations, strategic joint staff.
What I'd like to do, committee, just to even it up a bit, to make it fairer--in my mind, I think it's fair--is that whatever time the presentation takes out of the half hour, the remaining time would be divided amongst the parties equally for questions. If that meets your approval, we'll proceed that way.
It looks like we have some electronic presentations here.
Just before we get into that, go ahead.