Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
First of all, thank you for your presentations.
I would like to commend the Canadian Forces on their role in Libya. The leadership of General Bouchard demonstrated the application of our Canadian values. We must be proud of this, and I am expressing my pride on this as a former serviceman. We have done everything to avoid civilian casualties and we defended the civilians of Libya.
I have a question to the general. Can you inform the committee of all the resources Canada currently has allocated to the mission in Libya, both in terms of personnel and materiel? Has this number decreased? Are there any remaining requirements or requests from NATO or the NTC for continued Canadian monitoring and surveillance, or advice on potential counter-insurgency operations? We have seen what has been happening in Iraq; we have the bombings in Afghanistan, whose perpetrators have travelled from one country to another. How will Libya avoid this kind of counter-insurgency operation?
I have another question for Ms. Barbara Martin. Can you explain the role of the United Nations support mission in Libya? I have had some doubts concerning how you presented this one. Are they not in good relations with the NTC, or is something happening? Maybe you can elaborate on that.
The third one is the de-mining operation that you mentioned and how the money.... Who has the lead on this one? Do you have any oversight on the part of the military to be sure that the money allocated to de-mining is going to d-mining operations and not anywhere else?
Being a former engineer, I will ask these questions for sure.