Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
My motion is that the committee call the Minister of National Defence to appear before this committee in advance of the Minister of Finance’s tabling of the 2011 budget, in order to brief committee members on the supplementary estimates (C), 2010-2011, and to answer questions pertaining to a fleet of Mi-17 helicopters the Department of National Defence secretly leased and has operated in Kandahar province, as referenced in the motion this committee passed on November 25, 2010.
I had no problem with having that in camera, the second part. On the first part, the issue on supplementary estimates, we should obviously have the minister before us, and I presume that the minister will make himself available before then.