Thank you, Mr. Deputy Minister.
We are not privy to progress made inside the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, but we do hold discussions on all of these crises weekly, if not daily. The Afghanistan issue is a unique crisis. The interdepartmental governance system involves deputy ministers and assistant deputy ministers, of which I am one. Just yesterday, I discussed the Afghanistan issue with my counterparts at the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.
To give you an example, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Department of National Defence and the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship worked quickly. The Minister of National Defence approved the deployment of 100 Canadian Armed Forces personnel to Poland to assist the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship in dealing with the flood of refugees crossing from Ukraine into Poland. So these are—