Foreign Affairs committee  In the movie business, if you show a gun in the first act, you have to use it in the third act. We buy all this weaponry. We could play a stunt like what happened with Russia in Turkey, where they kept quietly invading their airspace, and suddenly the president decided to shoot d

Foreign Affairs committee  What is the ranger program? Can you expand on the ranger program a bit?

Foreign Affairs committee  Dr. Perry, you made an interesting point that we spend an awful lot of money on the east side of Greenland and nothing on the west side. In a world where there are competing interests, would you see us reorienting our commitments and our commitments to NATO, going out there and

Foreign Affairs committee  Would you like to see NATO exercises on this side of Greenland, not just Canadian exercises but actually talk to NATO and say, “Why don't you swing around this way?"

Foreign Affairs committee  Professor Charron.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. It's very sobering testimony, but it's probably necessary to set it in place. This peace accord was signed in August, I believe.

Foreign Affairs committee  It was September, and it wouldn't be the first or second time if it were to fail, correct? Do you have a specific belief this is more likely to stick? You prioritized one, two, three things, and I think they're excellent, but is there not work that we should be doing to make thi

Foreign Affairs committee  So Sudan might have been purposely undermining any peace for their own personal interests?

Foreign Affairs committee  One thing, for example, Canada could do is that if we have relations with Sudan, we could start leaning on them to make sure they don't start sliding.

Foreign Affairs committee  If our first goal is to make this agreement hold, before you get into your three priorities, what actions should we be taking to make this thing hold?

Foreign Affairs committee  But what should we doing with this thing? Who should we be leaning on? What should we be doing?

Foreign Affairs committee  For example, our government could make it very clear that if we see them being disruptive, they personally will pay the price.

Foreign Affairs committee  They will pay the price with our aid.

Foreign Affairs committee  I understand that. What about Uganda? Are they problematic, or are they not a problem?

Foreign Affairs committee  So the real problem is Sudan in terms of being a disrupter—