Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To answer your first question, about how to support the people of Afghanistan during the bleakest hour of Afghanistan's history, I believe it's not giving up on Afghanistan's people, which I see is becoming a trend in the international community today. The people of Afghanistan did not bring these terrorists to power. They did not have any authority or any role in the transformation that happened in August 2021 with the collapse of the republic and the rise of the Taliban.
The people of Afghanistan are still fighting for their freedom. They are still struggling for democracy, even though the international community, specifically NATO, left Afghanistan. They have shown this in many ways. One is the bravery of Afghanistan's women on the streets of Kabul and other cities in Afghanistan. Internationally, women are today struggling for their freedom and for their rights as human beings and as citizens in Afghanistan. At the same time, there's the political resistance the people of Afghanistan launched after August 2021, whether it was keeping the doors of the embassies open without any support or without any material assistance from anyone. We have had diplomats who have resisted succumbing to the Taliban. At the same time, they have kept their doors open in order to have a piece of Afghanistan free of terrorism and to represent Afghanistan on the international stage.
To transition to your second question, there's also the National Resistance Front. From August 15, 2021, as the republic collapsed and as NATO was ending its presence in Afghanistan, thousands of Afghanistan's military forces—those who, as you mentioned, fought alongside Canadians, who fought alongside other NATO forces—were trained and advised by the international community for 20 years. They did not give up the struggle for democracy, for human rights, for pluralism, for justice and so forth. They continued it under a new banner known as the National Resistance Front.
The National Resistance Front since then has been able to prove the international community false in their claim that the people of Afghanistan are tired of struggling for freedom and democracy and are tired of basically—