Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'd like to thank the member of Parliament for the laudatory remarks about our work on the international scene. This is much appreciated. And he is right about the fact that this is a niche area for Canada. We are well known for that around the world.
In terms of Afghanistan, our role, initially, went to helping establish a register of electors. It did not delve more deeply into setting up the electoral body and the running of it. Where we could come in handy in Afghanistan, where we could come in handy in the Congo, where we have provided advice to Cameroon, for example, within the last six months, and why the Nigerian electoral commission came to Canada within the last three weeks is exactly the area where we could be helpful. That is to say, we could help devise the kind of reflection that would help them establish what the forces at work in that country are. And how can they get that represented effectively on an electoral commission so that it is established as an independent body and at the same time is reflective of the population? That is something we can help devise.
We're not involved in the Congo at all, so there's no lesson for us to learn there. If we went, I'm sure we could learn with them. But we're not involved in the Congolese elections at this time. We were not involved at all as Elections Canada.