Mr. Kieran Brennan:

The process in that decision-making by Government is predicated on getting military advice from the general staff. In my case, as a deputy chief officer, I would be providing that military advice to the Minister and hence to the Governments. I will give two quick examples. When it came to the military deployment to Chad, the military did an assessment and advised the Government that the mission was practical, feasible and could be done, which it was. If we fast forward a number of years later when I was in situ, there was an attempt to put us into the UN mission to Mali. We sent a delegation out there to assess the situation and the military advice to the Government was that it was not appropriate to go into this mission for a variety reasons, which I will not go into. That military advice was accepted. On the one hand, we went to Chad based on the military advice and, on the other, we did not go to the UN training mission in Mali based on the advice. The safeguards that Dr. Berry refers to are there from a military perspective.