Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Bland and Mr. Coulon. You both raise very interesting issues. What I get from both of you, if I could combine the two presentations, is that it is a field where there is much less agreement than we would like to have on what a peace mission or a peace operation might look like in the next 10, 15, or 20 years, and what Canada should do.
You can't have a definition that's etched in stone. I realize that. Every mission is different. As Mr. Bland eloquently said, every mission has its own “grammar”. But can you tell us how our construction of a mission, or any missions, in the next five or ten years might be impacted by our experience in Afghanistan? We've lost 143 lives, and there is a certain feeling in the country, as you argue, that no peace mission is without danger. In any peace mission, you can always lose lives, and I recognize that.
So can you take a leap five or ten years hence and see what might happen?