I gather that Mr. Chris Alexander, who is the former Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan, and the deputy head of the UN in Afghanistan, and a Conservative candidate, has said in effect that torture was widespread, and that it was systematic in the system, that abuse of prisoners was systematic in the system, and that in his view there was absolutely no alternative but to continue to transfer prisoners to Afghanistan. And in his view there was never a question of either Dutch or Canadian or British or anybody else's troops conducting themselves inappropriately, but there were certainly a great many instances of abuse inside Afghan prisons. In his view there was no alternative because the decision not to create what might be called a parallel justice system was absolutely clear on the part of the Government of Canada. He said there was no alternative to what's happened. Would you share the view that there is no alternative to what's happened?
