The finance minister of Afghanistan met with Minister Oda recently, and he congratulated Canada as being one of the lead countries in terms of putting funding through Afghan government institutions, including his ministry. At the end of the day, you have to show you have confidence in the Government of Afghanistan and fund through them. So about half our funding goes through them, but there are good reasons why we don't send all our funding through them.
First, we have NGOs working in Afghanistan who are very, very competent. Think of Rory Stewart and Turquoise Mountain—the British former diplomat and soldier who set up a project in central Kabul. Canada is one of the lead funders of that. Peace Dividend Trust works to ensure that the money the international community spends in Afghanistan stays in Afghanistan. We fund Peace Dividend Trust.
So we fund the Afghan government. We run some of our support through them and through the UN, some of it through NGOs, and some of it we spend directly in Kandahar because the NGOs aren't operating there or the Afghan government isn't operating there. So we have three chains, but we're very, very focused on ensuring that at the end of the day we're helping to build up Afghan capacity to manage its own affairs.