I call the meeting to order.
This is the 23rd meeting of our deliberations on Afghanistan, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted Wednesday, October 4.
We're going to start today's meeting with a briefing on the status and progress of the Canadian involvement in Afghanistan. We have General Howard, director general of operations, Strategic Joint Staff.
Thank you, sir, for being here.
After we're done with General Howard, we'll move on to General Leslie, Chief of the Land Staff. We're looking forward to both of these presentations.
General, I'll turn it over to you. This is our second opportunity to be briefed on the operations. We're expecting to find out what happened from the last time we were briefed until this time. So hopefully that's the general direction we're going in.
The floor is yours.