Thank you, Chair.
To all the witnesses, thank you for being here today and thank you for a very engaged conversation.
The last time I spoke on the issue was when Minister Mendicino was at the committee. I'll ask the same question that I asked him, because there's a struggle that I'm having in my mind. I will start with Mr. Khan, and then we can move down the chain.
How do you balance between concerns around an entity or a regime like Taliban, which is extremely oppressive in nature...? The things they're doing and have done, and their views around women, are abhorrent to me personally and I'm sure to Canadians. That's not to mention some of the practices they deploy in undermining decades of work that has been done in Afghanistan in terms of giving women more freedom, ensuring there's education, and doing important development work, which all of you have been part of. Juxtapose that with the humanitarian crisis that's taking place right now in Afghanistan since the Taliban has come into power and the state of affairs there as it relates to people.
As a government, as policy-makers, we're trying to ensure that money doesn't go in any way to the Taliban while we're also trying to help people. I want to hear from you on this: What is the best possible way to meet that right balance that we've been trying to accomplish?
I'll start with Mr. Khan.