Thank you very much.
Thank you, Minister, for coming today and bringing us up to date on your efforts around Pakistan and the situation in Afghanistan. I guess you are the person who is in charge of the diplomatic efforts for Canada in this regard. I think you have a very difficult diplomatic situation to deal with.
We have Pakistan on one side of the border. They've received a lot of money internationally from the Americans. They have recently, I understand, completed some type of negotiation or agreement with the Taliban in the tribal area of Pakistan. They have come up with some type of an agreement with them not to follow up on some of their activities. We have a government in Kabul that's really distrustful of Pakistan. You told us today there are some 30,000 Pashtuns who cross the border each day, and many of those we know are insurgents. It's a very complex and dangerous situation, and in the middle of that we have 2,500 Canadian soldiers who are meant to be working in this area to bring security and peace.
You've also talked in your presentation today about the things the Canadian government is asking Pakistan to do. You've said that these are to seek out and arrest the senior Taliban figures in Pakistan—whom I think the whole international community knows are there—to improve the border security, which would be a major step forward; to ratify UN conventions against terrorism, which Pakistan has not done; to legislate something around the money laundering that goes on; to work, you say, to prevent the exploitation of refugees and the turning of them into insurgents. That's a big order.
I want to ask you this. What is the diplomatic road map of our government when we're now giving more aid to Pakistan in order to try to seek their efforts to meet these five objectives you've talked about? How are we going to monitor that? How will you ensure that Pakistan is doing these five things that you, on behalf of the Canadian government, have encouraged them to do?