I can assure you, from what I saw of General Fraser and the work he's doing there with our forces and in cooperation with other forces that are currently in the base at Kandahar, that he is very much in the loop as far as the communication is concerned. He is very much an individual, I think with incredible experience, who understands his responsibility.
As Minister of Foreign Affairs, I don't need to tell him how to do his job. I have great confidence that he and General Hillier and those involved in the mission from the very beginning are, in conjunction with him, making proper decisions. They're not being left out of NATO briefings. They're not being deprived of information, regardless of what you may have been told or what has been suggested to you.
But I'm not at liberty to describe, nor will I be drawn into a discussion about, operational details of how certain activities may play out on the ground. I know, as we all know, that Canada was not involved in the fatal bombing to which you've referred, but that doesn't mean we weren't aware it was going to happen. I would suggest to you it would be naive beyond belief to suggest that we didn't know certain operations were happening in a region in which we have command, and that is in the south.