Thank you, Chair.
Let me say very clearly that we in the Liberal Party support entirely what our special forces are doing and have been doing for the past five months. They're helping to prepare the peshmerga to defeat ISIS. We're in their debt for that. We supported their involvement, in fact, from the beginning, starting with the 30-day deployment that was announced last September.
But that is not the issue for us today. It's about the government levelling with Canadians about what's actually going on, and this government has failed to do that. Remember that it was this government that decided to make public what the special forces were doing, so it opened that door.
My first question is for the Minister of National Defence.
Minister, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons that our special forces role was quite precise. He said, “It is to advise and to assist. It is not to accompany.” This week, you said that you were “not sure we could train troops without accompanying them.” So who's right? You or the PM?