Thank you so much, Chair.
Thank you to all our witnesses for being here.
Ambassador Sirrs, I have a few questions for you.
First, just to comment on what you were saying at the end there, you mentioned that the U.S. still had a large footprint on the ground, whereas Canada had left about 10 years prior to that.
We've heard a lot during our committee hearings about the challenges of getting Afghan citizens out of Afghanistan now. You're in a unique position, in that you can tell us a bit about the difficulties in getting out people who had supported Canada and getting the documents they needed from the Afghan government to emigrate and leave prior to the fall, and also whether the Afghan government was putting up any barriers to its own citizens in terms of leaving the country to come to Canada.