Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank everyone for their excellent presentations.
I'll start with you, Dr. Jones, if that's okay.
I'm fairly new to the committee, so I really appreciated the high-level overview you started with—that we're now in a post-Arab Spring period. The complexity of the conflict is different, so what and whom we're fighting to get to peace in terms of the spoilers and the terrorists is completely different, and thus our peacekeeping and peacemaking also need to be different.
I also appreciated your giving a very good sense of the UN operations in places like Mali, and that for them to implement their objectives and have a better chance of success, it really depends on the quality of the troop contributors. I have a much better appreciation of Canada and our role in Mali as a result of part of the discussion you brought out today, as well as some of the other participants in the study. I'm very grateful for that.
One of the other things you mentioned—and this brings me to my question—is that Canada's participation in Mali gives us legitimacy at the UN to push policy agenda forward. Given the fact that a number of my colleagues are going to the UN, could you maybe elaborate on what policy agenda you think we should be pushing forward as we go to the UN?