There was no doubt in anybody's mind that the Afghan system was riddled with problems. It was a developing country that had been devastated by 30 years of war. We knew that.
We had a problem, in that we had people captured on the battlefield who were a threat to Afghans and Canadians. We could either let them go or put them into the Afghan justice system. To do that, we would have to take steps to improve the Afghan justice system, and specifically the prisons. We worked interdepartmentally to come up with a program that would allow us to do that with a degree of confidence.