Thank you, Chair, and thank you to all our witnesses for being here.
To Dr. Belliveau in particular, thank you for the work that you and MSF are doing in saving lives, not just in Afghanistan but around the world. We all appreciate it.
We're really challenged with this. Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe and I both sat on the special committee for Afghanistan and struggled with the fact that the Taliban is listed in our Criminal Code. It's been mentioned before that there was a blanket exemption given in other countries. Our understanding was that we were unable to do that because of the way the Taliban is listed.
Just today there is an article stating that the U.S. Afghanistan watchdog testified before Congress that he can't guarantee that U.S. aid is not going to fund the Taliban, so trying to strike that balance....
Ms. Davis, I saw you shaking your head when I talked about the Criminal Code. Could you maybe explain and talk a little bit about the challenges that we have in trying to get this exemption to get aid into Afghanistan?