Minister, I'll quote you in a letter to the defence committee.
The funds that CIDA provides to national-level programs are not earmarked for Kandahar province, as we support the aid principle...making it difficult for CIDA to track its funds to the provincial level....
The reality is that you don't know, and the general on the ground doesn't know, that the funds are getting there. In fact, they know that the funds are not getting on the ground, and this is the central problem we have. Our government's funding for aid projects in CIDA is a failure, and our troops need that changed now.