Minister, I appreciate your answer, but the fact is that in Afghanistan, as in Ukraine, we currently do not have agents on the ground to monitor the delivery of humanitarian aid. The same is true for Tigray, by the way. So we have to rely very often on non-governmental organizations, but in the case of Afghanistan, there are some particular circumstances. Canadian humanitarian organizations are afraid to do their work on Afghan territory because they fear, on their return, that they will be prosecuted under the Criminal Code for having had to deal with local authorities that are considered illegal in Canada.
So I know that you are aware of this problem, but I can't tell you just how much we need to find a solution to support these organizations in delivering humanitarian aid on the ground in Afghanistan. We know how much the Afghans need this aid and we need to find a way to deliver it.
As I briefly mentioned, we are facing the same situation in Tigray and in Ukraine, where we don't have agents on the ground to ensure delivery. How do we track the aid that is given by Canada to ensure that it actually gets into the hands of the people who really need it?
Just before this meeting, I was giving an interview, and a journalist was telling me that, as a matter of fact, Canadian aid and military support were being channelled through Poland into Ukraine, but once across the border, we had no more control.
So what should we be doing, Minister, to ensure that the aid we provide actually ends up where it is needed?