I find it surprising that my notes show us to have had roughly $180 million tagged for Kandahar that we weren't able to spend there. At least that's the information I received from CIDA officials when I was in Kandahar. My question is, if we're not able to spend the money that was already tagged for Kandahar, if we can't get other partners to engage with us in development projects in Kandahar, and if security is still an issue, how is it that we're going to be able to go from 17% to 50%?
On June 18th, 2008. See this statement in context.