The letters that were conveyed via my office came from Global Affairs Canada. If any promises were made, those promises were made by the Government of Canada. I had nothing to do with the wording of that letter.
The fact that the chief of staff for the Minister of National Defence sent me the template and then sent me a second template that was more appropriate for Afghans to use is, for me, a more than adequate demonstration that, in a massive humanitarian crisis, people like George Young in the government were doing everything they possibly could to try to get people out. Everyone knew that people were going to be left behind, but the people I was working with were working literally night and day to do everything they could to get out as many as they could.