Thank you.
I'm an immigrant to Canada. I fled a war and a coup d'état in Africa in 1971. I was raised and educated in Canada and am very proud to be serving my country in whatever capacity.
I've worked on the Middle East peace process before. I worked on the Bosnia reconstruction effort, which at the time was our largest military and civilian operation in the late 1990s. I served on the United Nations Security Council when we were last on the Security Council. I've been ambassador to Jordan and Iraq. So I'm very familiar with the conflict situation in which we all find ourselves in Afghanistan.