I'd like to ask a more backward-looking question, since the motion adopted by the House ordering this committee to be set up asked us to study what went wrong in the evacuation of people from Kabul by Canada before and during the fall of Kabul.
NATO evacuated some 70,000 people leading up to August 25. For example, the United Kingdom, one of the NATO members, evacuated over 11,000 people in the weeks leading up to August 25. The Government of Canada appears to have been slow and disorganized in evacuating people from Kabul in the period leading up to the end of August. It looks like some 2,000 to 3,000 people were evacuated in the weeks leading up to the end of August.
My question is twofold. Can any of the witnesses here tell us if they brought this issue to the attention of the government before the fall of Kabul, and when they did that? Can you provide a general comment on the government's evacuation efforts in the period ending at the end of August of last year?