Defeating the narco-economy, the problem in Afghanistan, is going to take a long time, if we're to take the measure of any country where it has flourished—think of Southeast Asia or Turkey. There are no shortcuts.
Canada is doing a couple of things. First, we are funding, to the tune of about $30 million, a program that includes money for alternative livelihoods—i.e., encouraging people to grow other crops—and also to improve the courts and the police and the prosecutors, to get the people upstream. So it's not just focused on the farmer; it's focused on the bad guys who actually make this business work.
The other thing we're doing longer term is economic development in Kandahar. A poppy grows, first, where the roads end and the insurgency begins, but secondly, it grows in places where irrigation isn't available, because unfortunately poppy is very hardy. Because there is no irrigation in southern Afghanistan, farmers turn to that often as a last recourse. Once we begin to get traction on Dahla Dam and irrigation, we think we're going to make it possible for people to grow wheat. Afghan farmers don't want the risk of growing poppy. It runs counter to their religion; they have to deal with very bad, scary people who take money from them; they can't feed it to their livestock. So there are a lot of reasons why they don't want to do that.
Economic activity and alternative economic prospects work against that. So we're working on it on a number of tracks, but it's going to be a long-term problem.