You can appreciate that we got a large volume of traffic on all sorts of different issues. We had to look at the problem of what was the proper equipment to be sending. That was a huge thing, because it was a large matter and we had to get money for it. We had to deal with all those usual problems, you'll appreciate, of equipping.
We had to deal with the relationships between the departments, which would be CIDA, Foreign Affairs, and ourselves. You'll appreciate the discussions have shown that there weren't as many Foreign Affairs officials in the country at the beginning as there were; you had the Manley report, and things were changed.
So all of those sorts of discussions would have been literally every day, practically, once we got more active in Afghanistan. I went to Afghanistan once as a foreign minister and once as a defence minister, so on those trips I would have met with Mr. Karzai to discuss what we were doing.
We were constantly involved in one way or another in the file.