Mr. Chairman, thank you for accepting that suggestion.
I want to thank the witnesses for coming here today.
As you know, we want to do a report that makes certain recommendations with regard to the non-military role for Canada in Afghanistan and also look at the other aspect on training.
The Prime Minister indicated the other day that corruption was the number one issue, in his view, as we've acknowledged around this table for a number of years now. We also note that the government has now indicated that it's going to reduce the amount of aid to Afghanistan.
Now, how do we do capacity-building, how do we deal with the rule of law, how do we deal with some of these issues if in fact corruption is the major issue? Again, I notice that corruption was not in one of the four objectives in the November 16 press conference of the three ministers. How are we going to address this particular issue of corruption?
Plus, what are the objectives and priorities of this task force and what it might suggest to this committee with regard to some of these other issues, such as the Dahla Dam? Are we, or are we not, going to be able to complete that on time? If we're not, what are the issues?
Finally, in terms of the three signature projects we have, can you give us an update on those?
I will leave the remainder of my 10 minutes for Mr. Dion.