Thank you for mentioning the U.S. proposal or plan to send $750 million in development assistance. This is precisely what is needed—that some development assistance be provided. This is certainly an area to which Canada could contribute. The recent plans were also introduced by the Afghan government to hold peace jirgas, to bring together people on both sides of the border to perhaps initiate some level of dialogue that's needed. The U.S. has also introduced a plan to provide preferential trade status for goods that are produced in the FATA.
Development, of course, is a key element of this process. It's not just using a hammer. It is necessary also to bring development assistance. There has to be more discussion about how to build linkages across that border, not to fence that border, as the Pakistanis are talking about, not to divide tribes and villages but to build connections across the border.
Thank you.