Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Mulroney, Afghanistan is our number one recipient of assistance, and last year when we were in Afghanistan we discovered concerns with regard to a disconnect between the aid that's going there—the assistance, the job building—and the failure to really employ and coordinate working with the local officials and with the local people. That's reinforced again by the Kabul-based Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies, which talks about the failure in terms of our work both through CIDA and through the PRT, that it's not coordinated with the local government, that local people are not being hired. This is not just in terms of Canada's role, but in terms of other countries' assistance.
What are we doing to address that, given the fact that it's not helping? People are not going to be very supportive of a government if in fact they don't feel their own standard of living is improving, because in fact they're not being part of the equation.