Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I support the amendment and I support the motion. Something smells fishy here, and it's not Arctic char. There is a discrepancy between the Prime Minister's initial comments around this and then those of the Minister of National Defence. The Prime Minister was talking initially about Russian intrusions into our airspace. The minister was then sort of backtracking, saying that this was a flight along Canadian airspace. You have indications that there have been regularly, since 2007, these kinds of contacts.
My sense is that there are a lot of unanswered questions around why the Prime Minister came out and why the Minister of National Defence came out...and what is actually happening up in the Arctic. To what degree is there communication between the Russian military and our military about these flights, which are, depending on how you define them, surveillance flights or intrusive flights?
I think we need to get to the bottom of this. I would hope that the committee would be able to speak both to the Russian ambassador or military attaché and also to our Department of National Defence officials to find out exactly what did happen. It's not clear whether or not there was notification.