Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Professor Roussel, I appreciate your passion for the defence of Canada's Arctic and cooperation with our American allies.
I'm struggling with your comment that we don't have access, that whenever we go down to Washington, the doors aren't open for us. Yet every time we travel as a committee, as parliamentarians, when we're reaching out and talking to our American colleagues, they're telling us that the doors are open to us because of our commitment to the war on terror in Afghanistan.
I thought that we had built up quite a bit of goodwill and cooperation between our two governments because of our doing the right thing. On May 9 we're honouring everyone who fought and those who fell in Afghanistan. So I'm somewhat confused by what you said, that the Americans don't seem to care, because we keep getting told that the doors are open for us. We definitely have their attention and their appreciation for our military efforts.