Mr. Speaker, this should be of no surprise to the hon. member because we discussed this in the House on February 17.
This is relevant to the peacekeeping mission that was foreseen in the Rambouillet talks. We indicated at that time that between 600 and 800 personnel, approximately 700 if you will, would be deployed for that purpose. They would come from our base in Edmonton. They would be equipped with Coyote reconnaissance, one of the best, state of the art, armoured personnel carrier vehicles that we have, Griffon helicopters and other necessary equipment to carry out a peacekeeping mission.
They are, as our troops are expected to be, fully combat capable. They are able to deal with a range of conditions. The kinds of conditions we are talking about for their deployment are the very ones we talked about in the House on February 17, and that is as a part of a peacekeeping mission.