I'm saying to connect it.
In the last nine years we've given $1.5 billion to the Afghanistan mission. Forget about the money. The money is not as important as 150 Canadian soldiers. If we did not succeed in putting conditions, and we saw the reality and the fruit on the ground.... It's easy to see it; it's not that hard. You go to Kabul and you know where the location of the police station is. I was there for a few days and I succeeded, without intelligence, to pinpoint different positions just in Kabul, the capital, the most secure area, of boy play.
We went inside and we filmed. That's the tape I wanted to show to the committee, but we couldn't work it out. I think everyone received the tape of the evidence. We succeeded to get inside and monitor. We knew where it was. We knew which police station did this. When we say “corruption”, we see in the paper, and that's evidence, of people who basically are arrested by the Afghani government. This is hard-core evidence in front of you. It's easy to know when there are changes.
The improvement of human rights in Afghanistan should be connected to our existence in Afghanistan. How much are we spending on the mission and how many troops are putting their lives in danger, if they are not improving human rights?
Your idea is very good. Make it connected to a timeline. Within this timeline, if we did not see improvement, if we did not see free elections, if we did not see free people, if we did not see that this law is cancelled from the Afghani constitution, I think we should save our money and our soldiers' lives and we should get out of Afghanistan.