Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Ms. Olexiuk, for coming and joining us today.
I was impressed with your approach and with your experience in Bosnia and other difficult places and also with your strong expression of acting in the interests of Canada.
I want to ask you a little about the interests of Canada, as a diplomat serving the country abroad in a non-partisan way. You talked about the medieval conditions in the jails there. You talked about the fact that it was well known in Afghanistan among you and I assume all the others in the diplomatic corps and in the various agencies. I guess it was no surprise to you that Mr. Colvin would be writing reports similar to yours describing these circumstances. Is that true, first of all?