Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Professor Granatstein, it's very good to see you. You never disappoint, I must say, in terms of your comments. I appreciated very much what you had to say.
We really have a situation where, on the one hand, Canada may be called upon because of NATO, the EU, or just western powers, in general, to respond to certain issues. The other side of the coin is our support for international law, human rights, humanitarianism, and the sorts of traditional Canadian values in terms of our foreign policy. In your comments you mentioned that maybe it's sort of like the Australian model, suggesting that we maybe need to stay closer to home in this hemisphere.
Could you elaborate? I certainly concur with you that we need to have.... We have the armed forces at a high tempo at the present time, and we don't want to lose that. But at the same time, the national interest is dictated by what we believe is in our best interests in the hemisphere.
I was interested in your comments particularly with regard to Haiti. Could you expand on why you think that is important?
What about this issue of NATO versus some of the more traditional things we talk about--international human rights? How is it that we come down on one side or the other on issues such as that?