I appreciate that.
I think the numbers that were provided by government prior to basically breaking its promise on ending the military mission had been very substantive. I mean, we had, in the document that was going to Treasury Board, $37.5 million for DFAIT for programming that would conceivably have DFAIT involved in diplomacy. They actually marked their priorities in this paper, which we haven't heard about since they decided to flip-flop on this, that they would actually talk about promoting regional diplomacy. There was money attached to that.
I think you were referring to Ahmed Rashid's recent article when you mentioned that the pathway to peace in Afghanistan is through Islamabad. But it's also through India. I think this regional approach has fallen on deaf ears, certainly with this government.
I'm curious to know what you think the benefit is of Canada pushing a regional approach, and are we actually going to see some movement on diplomacy? And to be fair to the government, its own report card says it's stuck on reconciliation and diplomacy.
Again, I think it's important for people to know that this is a regional equation. Could you give us a little bit more on the need for having a regional diplomacy approach?