Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. And thank you, General, for being the opening act for the committee--and the closing act, because I think you'll be our last witness before we do our report. Thank you for coming today. I want to start with the Manley report and the motion that went through t

Foreign Affairs committee  The government put a ballpark of $4.7 billion on the 16 CH-47 Chinooks. We're hearing that the costs of the Chinooks are between $15 million and $20 million. Does that sound about right to you?

Foreign Affairs committee  Right.

Foreign Affairs committee  I guess what I'm saying is, do you have a ballpark figure? I think one of the concerns that people quite rightly have is that if we're going to have the extension of the mission to 2011 and it's going to come with the demands we've been asked for--the 1,000 troops, the helicopter

Foreign Affairs committee  That's why we need to do this before April 16. And I think the calendar is open for this as well.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, granted. Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's fine. It was a friendly amendment.

Foreign Affairs committee  Exactly. To start things off, Mr. Chairman, I just wanted to move a motion that we bring to the front of our business agenda the motion that I have at the bottom, so that we can discuss it. I guess, to start things off, I need to move a motion to discuss and hopefully pass my mot

Foreign Affairs committee  I think the motion is in front of everyone. Because of time constraints, I won't get into a long introduction. I would just like to say that the reason I brought it forward was to have this committee study the responsibilities and the various issues around the government's dealin

Foreign Affairs committee  It was brought to me before, Mr. Chair. Essentially, for everyone else's concern, the change mentioned by Mr. Goldring, or I guess the presumption that we've come out of this with, is to do more of a study. I guess that's the intention. I'm fine with that. I simply want to mak

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you to Mr. Patry for his question. It's an excellent one. The intention of this motion is simply to have particularly government witnesses and others to explain what the remote sensing act is about and how it relates to this file so that this committee can understand it a

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll be very quick. I've had the benefit of reading the report from Oxfam, and I thank you for it. I'm assuming it has been submitted to our researchers. Thank you for your work. You talk about peace-building having to be at the local level, and that there are ways to do it. T

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to our guests for being here today, and thank you for the work that you've done on this issue. I would agree with the comments that were made about civil society really being critical in making us aware of what the concerns were in Burma, beca

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, I was hoping to get to it today. That's why at the beginning of the committee I asked if we could extend our time for committee business, hoping that we'd be able to deal with Madame Barbot's proposal and get to the one on the MDA, because it is time-sensitive.