It's true, as Mr. Hawn said, that we will be having a debate and a vote in the House tomorrow night on whether there will be a new or extended mission in Afghanistan at the completion of the mission in February of 2007, but I don't see that as in conflict with this motion. We can't predispose how that vote will go tomorrow night. We don't know that.
Also, Canadian Forces are in Afghanistan until 2007 at a minimum. They may be there, depending on how the vote goes tomorrow night, until 2009, so all of these concerns will be valid concerns along the length of whatever length the mission is. I think it is incumbent upon this committee to look seriously at all the issues raised in the motion before us today, regardless of what happens tomorrow night.