In terms of construction capacity, your document shows how hard CIDA is working. But Canadians certainly want to learn what knowledge and know-how we are transferring to the Afghans themselves.
In response to Mr. Dechert's question about the three signature projects, you said you were confident because the Americans are there to take over. But are the Afghans themselves capable today of vaccinating their population against polio? Are they capable of building schools and training their teachers? And when it comes to water management and dam management, have we helped to train engineers and skilled workers or have we instead done everything by ourselves and made little effort to be sure they take over in their own country, which is the purpose of our presence there?