Education is key in any society. We know that. We're very pleased to be co-chairing some of the oversight there. We are putting significant numbers of dollars into that. As I was saying, again with regard to Madame Lalonde's remarks, we're seeing progress, but there is a long way to go. And that really comes down to not a lack of desire for education on the part of the people in Afghanistan, but the threat they are exposed to for wanting to be educated. This is where we have to work closely with the Afghan authorities, of course respecting how they would like to see things progress, but on the security side. It is discouraging to see the number of schools that have to close and then reopen all based on threat. I'll tell you, we're going to see an increase in the number of people being educated, and the levels are going to be rising with the influx now of American troops. There are some 17,000 more as of today, and that will increase, we're told. The ability to provide security has jumped up exponentially. With that, our thought is--and we'll record it in the next quarterly report--that you're going to see a significant bump forward in the number of people being educated. If anything has held us back in terms of numbers, it's largely been on the security side. It's not the lack of will.
Regarding the truth and reconciliation process, again we are doing what we can, respecting the people of Afghanistan and their governments, to assist them in this process. If they make a decision that they're going to have discussions with Taliban at a certain level, it's really tricky trying to define a moderate Taliban and an extreme Taliban. We would hope that the people of Afghanistan are going to be engaging with those who are going to want to set aside violence as a means of advancing their political gains--that's a definition of terrorism--and with people who are going to respect the basic rights of human beings, men and women. People are going to see that attacking innocent civilians, killing children, and killing the elderly is not part of a civilized society and should have no part in that. In that process, our CIDA funding goes to a number of areas. In the areas of their justice department, there is both the administration and the understanding of justice. In different rural areas especially, in different villages, they have their own system of administration and their own system of governance, and we help them to understand how that can be tied into a broader consensus, a broader acceptance of certain basic values. So we want to respect the shuras, but we also give funding to help the people of Afghanistan raise these basic levels of appreciation for human rights.