Afghanistan committee  Thank you very much.

Afghanistan committee  I think this is the fundamental issue. When we had just Task Force Kandahar—only Canadians, and even before the arrival of the first U.S. battalion—we were in a very small, concentrated area. Many of you visited some of the various camps. Camp Wilson, just west of Kandahar, used

Afghanistan committee  Thanks very much for the question. Right up front, the answer is yes. Let me just put forward a preamble. First of all, thank you and thanks to everyone for the great comments about the men and women in the Canadian Forces. I think we've realized once again through this experie

Afghanistan committee  Thank you, sir.

Afghanistan committee  Thank you and good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. It's my pleasure to be here with you today. I would also like to thank you for your visit to Afghanistan in June of this year. It was appreciated by our men and women in uniform. I believe that going on thes

National Defence committee  The land forces commander could give you details about that. As far as I know, the assessment study of the Manège militaire Voltigeurs in Quebec City is ongoing. I think that the idea of another armoury for the Combat Engineering Regiment in the Sainte-Foy area is being considere

National Defence committee  That's correct, Mr. Chair. My understanding of the event, again, not having been there, and one of my staff actually contacting the military policeman.... He was not at the event where the Afghan police arrested the individual. He was called in after a Canadian soldier had remo

National Defence committee  That's my assessment.

National Defence committee  First of all, I can just talk about the casualties. One casualty is too many.

National Defence committee  One casualty is too many. It's always been difficult when you have a reinforcement and more soldiers, sailors, and airmen and airwomen coming into the south, and you see the levels, the indicators, the metrics of violence going up, and the indicators are normally an attack agains

National Defence committee  Can I also say that we're not going to wait until July 1 to do things? If you can believe it, we actually have snow and ice clearance equipment in a desert in Kandahar, because when we were in Kabul we needed to have snow and ice clearance equipment. So we actually have container

National Defence committee  The military policeman who took the note--and these are military police notes, Mr. Chair--was the military policeman who was called in after another soldier had removed the Afghan from the beating with the shoes. So this is again the military police coming in and following throug

National Defence committee  Right.

National Defence committee  According to the information provided to me in 2007 by the platoon commander, and the information I have from the battalion commander, both in 2007 and last night when I spoke to him, these people had been questioned by us but we did not take them as detainees. If we had taken th

National Defence committee  That's my assessment.