Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Graham, I accept at face value your statement that you believe that Canadian armed forces officials, Department of Foreign Affairs officials, your government officials were trying to do their best in the circumstances,and very difficult circumstances. I believe the same is true today.
It's not my view, but there are those on the other side of the House and out there in the world, groups like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and others, who say we could have done better. Perhaps that decision to transfer prisoners to the Afghan authorities rather than the U.S. authorities at Bagram was a bad one, or perhaps Canada should have built its own prison system and taken care of the prisoners itself. But I accept that everybody was doing their best.
You entered into an agreement, which, by your own admission, was flawed. We know it wasn't as good as the U.K. and Dutch agreements, and perhaps other agreements that were entered into at the same agreement. By your own admission it was improved in 2007.
If there are allegations of abuse today, do you and your government, your party, share any responsibility for that?