We had to remind ourselves every day in Afghanistan that we were in a different sovereign country, and as much as we'd have liked to try to solve our problems ourselves in any sector, we had to recognize of course that what we were doing had to reflect the sovereign needs and sensitivities of the country we were in.
In the case of detainee transfers, there was really only one organization that the Afghans asked us to transfer to; this was the organization that had their governmental responsibility for accepting these detainees detained under those circumstances.
With respect to capacity building, Mr. Hawn, because I think this is I think how you started the question, Canada did capacity building in part to support our international obligations, but we did much more than that. We did capacity building well beyond our international requirements. It was not a minimalist approach.
We did national training of managers in security institutions, whether that was the police, NDS, or military, but including NDS on management training, on human rights training, from institutions that were well beyond Kabul and Kandahar. Some of the infrastructure and equipment that we supplied were well beyond what we thought was the strict legal obligation. It was part of our commitment to build the Afghan state to be stronger and more independent.