Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thanks to you and your colleagues, Admiral, for being here.
First of all, I want to say that of course our thoughts and prayers are with all the personnel—I think over 380 of them—who are engaged in theatre. I think the House was very clear the other night in its discussions that we certainly support the mission.
A number of things obviously come to mind. One is that there's always this issue of how you enforce a no-fly zone and what the objectives are of that no-fly zone. At the same time, there is the issue of whether we are there to engage in supporting the non-Gadhafi elements, or simply to impose a very strict no-fly zone, and what then comes out of that? How do you know you've achieved that goal?
Secondly, there was a mission the other day for which there was concern about collateral damage. It was called off. I assume that's a judgment that is made by the pilots themselves, based on their experience, presumably to avoid civilian casualties.
On this issue of the nature of command, which is going to be shifting, I take it, from the United States over to NATO at some point, what role does and will Canada play in this command structure, at least from the military standpoint?