Thank you so much, Chair.
I do thank you, Sammy. We're learning a lot. It's a lot to parse through, but I definitely appreciate your frankness with us.
I just want to comment, though. You had mentioned that there was no interaction with the House of Commons after 1994. Is that accurate? I just want to draw attention to the fact that as Canadian fighter jets—and I had to look this up—flew over hostile Libyan airspace, all four political parties put aside pre-election posturing for a few hours on Monday to support Canada's role in the mission to contain a Libyan stronghold that was held by Gadhafi. We were compelled to intervene, both by a moral duty and by duty to NATO and to the United Nations. The former defence minister, Peter MacKay, told that to the House of Commons, opening up debate on a motion supporting the deployment. The Liberals, the NDP and the Bloc unanimously supported our Conservative motion. Then, there was more discussion about the fact that, with Afghanistan and things, we need to be aware and engaged on those things. One thing I will take away from what you said today is that we're failing at that, and we need to see our government in the House of Commons engaged in what our armed forces are doing.