Has Canada had any involvement in the counter-narcotics programs in Afghanistan? It seems that the source of money for a lot of the insurgency is from the poppy. I know we have had an alternate livelihood program going, but is there any real countrywide or multilateral program that will effectively help people out of poppy production, to have an economic base for their area and their family where they don't feel they have to rely on poppy production?
There was a program on CBC this week that really showed the latent kind of criminal element almost, or smugglers element to it, but also showed the individual poppy farmers who really said they had no alternative other than poppy production.