Excellent. That's very good news. Thank you for putting that on the record.
I would like to go back to the question I asked earlier on the allotment of $53.8 million to the Department of Foreign Affairs by DND, the transfer in the supplementaries. From a defence perspective, I'd like to ask for your view on the Middle East, as it currently stands, and what evolutionary trajectories you see when you look at Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya and the constellation of powers around that. How does that affect your thinking, in terms of advance planning for potential Canadian support of peace operations in the Middle East?
As an adjunct to that question, do you see an opportunity for us to be active not only in Mali, but potentially in other future missions, such as Yemen, if and when the time is right for that?