Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Minister Anand, for being with us. General Eyre and everyone at the end of the table, thanks for joining us.
I appreciate the comments about the Sam Sharpe Breakfast. It was very well attended. It's one of the best ones I've been at over the last decade.
I, too, want to extend my thanks to retired senator, Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, as well as my soon to retire colleague, the Hon. Erin O'Toole, a retired captain of the air force. I want to thank them for their work, and I'm looking forward to seeing it being handed off to two of our colleagues, retired Admiral Rebecca Patterson, who is now a senator, as well as our colleague in the House of Commons, Alex Ruff, a retired colonel. I know they will continue with the great tradition of monitoring our military and those in service and their families, as well as all of our first responders and police officers out there who are suffering with mental health and operational stress injuries.
Minister, I want to start with the crisis in Sudan. As was reported yesterday in the newspaper, your Liberal government seems to have a habit, when it came to Afghanistan and now in Sudan, to be the last ones in and the first ones out. Prof. Christian Leuprecht said that we simply don't have the capacity, we don't have people, or we don't have the political will. Which is it?