The west was strongly criticized by a women who was a spokesperson for the Independent Human Rights Commission. The criticism was that we let this happen and that we must have known about it.
I accept entirely Mr. Brodeur's testimony that the Government of Canada in fact didn't know about it. But the second, related real issue is presumably that if there's a Shia family law that has gone through, there's also a Sunni family law that is being drafted. I wonder what lessons we have learned from this experience with respect to the Shia family law situation to figure out what to do.
Let me just emphasize that I'm not suggesting this is easy. The notion that we're going to turn Afghanistan into a secular, liberal democracy in short order is frankly, from my perspective, nonsense. That's not going to happen. We somehow have to figure out what the acceptable middle ground is between not only us but all the western countries who are NATO, who were there so strongly, and whatever values emerge.
Perhaps one of you could advise us with respect to the second shoe that's going to drop. It's a majority Sunni population. If there's a Sunni family law coming—and I assume there is one coming—it's going to be quite a big deal with respect to some of these issues.