I wasn't able to hear question period today. Ukraine has been described as a close neighbour or as the easternmost province, and Canada as an oblast of Ukraine. I think our people-to-people ties are incredibly close, as committee members around the table know.
I think that's a mischaracterization of the relationship in terms of the people and the history of our cultural, economic and now military co-operation. Certainly we've seen that the Canadian public is very supportive of the refugees, as Orest said—the 200,000-plus, I think, displaced persons or refugees, as we call them colloquially. The public support for increased humanitarian and military assistance continues to be strong.
Our job is to maintain that consensus with the public and with Parliament, to keep working forward.