Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for being here.
I'd like to go back to the assessment of progress or lack thereof, and so on. You do get different assessments from people. I assume you have been on the ground there. I have not. I've talked to a number of people who have been on the ground. The assessments by people who look at it from here are different from those by people who have actually been there. I refer to some people, including the Chief of the Defence Staff, who feel that we are making significant progress on the ground.
We talk about the mission focus being virtually all military and not very much reconstruction and so on. I'm wondering how much of the mission focus presented to the Canadian public is a matter of the media focus on that part of the mission.