Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for giving us the progress report as to what Canada has been doing, the achievements Canada has made, and the challenges Canada has.
Mr. Minister, one of the main things the opposition has been trying to do is to find there was torture there and that our soldiers were somehow considering that. They forget that the transfer agreement was made during their regime and that we improved on that. They don't seem to go to the fact of how much money we have put in the present system to stop that, to teach the Afghan justice system, the Afghan prisoners.
To give you an idea of how this information is twisted by the opposition.... Mr. Minister, last term you said that since signing this agreement there have been over 200 visits by Canadian officials to the prison system. Yet Mr. Dosanjh tried to twist that fact to say that it wasn't 200 visits, it was 200 prisoners.
Can you clarify that situation so Mr. Dosanjh can know very clearly that there were over 200 visits to check on the prisoners to see that torture was not being done and that we were complying with our international rules?