Prof. Gordon Smith at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On March 29th, 2007. See this statement in context.

March 29th, 2007 / 12:35 p.m.

Executive Director, Centre for Global Studies and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of Victoria

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I won't add to that, but I do have the information on salary support, if I may reply to that question, thanks to Ellen Wright of CIDA.

This fiscal year, 2006-07, CIDA provided $18 million to the Afghanistan reconstruction trust fund, and a portion of this provided salary support to 270,000 civil servants in a variety of different government departments.

That's an overall figure, and I'm sure more detail can be provided to the committee if you wish.

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