Thank you, Madam Chair.
Through the chair, I would first like to thank you, Senator, for taking the time to be here today and for answering these very hard questions. I know that you're going to be here for the full two hours, and I really do appreciate your extending your time to answer these really important questions from this committee.
Senator, I'm wondering more broadly if you can opine on whether you think the way in which you operated in this situation set any sort of precedent. There are extreme and unfortunate situations and crises unfolding across the world right now, and Canada responds to several of these. While seldom do we respond to any situation on the scale and magnitude of the fall of Kabul, there are other situations—for example, Uganda right now.
Do you think it would be appropriate for me as a member of Parliament to be working with partners in Uganda to issue letters of my own volition and then tell the government that they need to honour the promises I made? I just don't want people all around the world to think that a Canadian parliamentarian has made a promise to them while they were vulnerable and in a dire situation.
Can you comment on that?