I'm sure he will, but I have to raise the point of order that, once again, this is a timeframe when the minister was not the Minister of National Defence. It is not related to the topic at hand. This committee already agreed, as was discussed previously, that items to do with the Afghan mission would be discussed by the special committee on Afghanistan, not this committee. This is the defence committee.
The minister is obviously free to answer, but I want to reiterate the point of order. What's happening here is that he's hijacking this process of the defence committee for this meeting, with the minister, as the Minister of National Defence, on the topic of estimates and other related issues relating to his job as the Minister of National Defence, not the Minister of Foreign Affairs. This is an attempt to hijack this process, and we object to that.
Having said that, obviously the minister is free to conduct himself and answer as he sees fit.