Mr. Bachand, our reports for several years indicated there was a high likelihood that torture was going on in Afghanistan detention facilities. However, we were confident that, based on information we had, no Canadian transfer detainees had been abused or mistreated. Our view was that, nevertheless, we had to do everything we could to improve the capacity of the Afghan government to ensure those standards were met.
That's what we did when we consulted with our allies in terms of coming up with common ways to raise that standard, as well as the very specific bilateral measures that we took, which I described in my statement. In other words, we had a very proactive strategy. It wasn't a matter of being satisfied with the status quo, but helping the Afghanistan government to improve the standards that it had at that time.