Historically, Canadian churches have not had widespread presence in Afghanistan. That's probably something that could be said to be true of most Canadians and most Canadian organizations prior to 2001.
We do bring a record of participation in development, peace-building, and disarmament work around the world. Churches are among the largest civil society organizations. We don't function as a command organization such that we can deliver each and every member of any one of our churches on a particular issue, especially as complicated as this one. But our statement does represent the collective wisdom of our involvement in the world, including in multi-faith dialogues.