I honestly don't know how to respond to it. You probably could make a case that, in general, the United States authorities probably had a better capacity to deal with prisoners than anybody else. They had more personnel, more experience. But the problem was that we were dealing with a situation with the American authorities where I do not believe we would have been able to get an agreement with them, either about the Geneva Conventions or the way in which the prisoners would have been...and if somebody were transferred to Bagram and then sent to Guantanamo, or one of these other places, what recourse would Canada have had?
That was the position we were in. I'm not suggesting that the Americans are evil or anything, but they had serious problems at that time. As I said, if I can go back to the debates in the House--if you had been present then, sir, it was very clear--all parties in the House at the time were clearly of the view that it was much better to deal with the Afghan authorities than the Americans.