Thank you, Mr. Obhrai.
As I mentioned earlier, Canada felt that risk was necessary because we had international obligations that we felt must be respected.
The roads that our officials travelled on--as I said, over 200 times--to fulfill these obligations were roads that saw civilians killed on multiple occasions by attacks and IEDs. The facilities they went to, whether it was Sarposa prison, the justice ministry prison, or the NDS facility, those institutions were attacked in a very serious way on multiple occasions, involving massive loss of life.
We knew those risks. The individuals who went knew the risks. The significant numbers of soldiers who provided the transport and close protection knew those risks. But these were risks, as I said earlier, that we felt we had to take to be able to be in compliance with our international legal obligations, and they were ones that those taking those risks were professionally committed to doing.