Thank you, Mr. Harris.
If you don't mind, I'll tackle the army issue, because this is the one we're responsible for. The police issue is more for DFAIT and the RCMP, and I think they can speak to that.
In terms of the Afghan National Army, it's important to understand that.... When I referred to the level of expertise or the level of proficiency, I mentioned level one and level two, which are critical for us because it means those organizations can operate on their own.
In the case of the kandak that was reported last year as being responsible for the region of Zhari, the reason they were moved out of Zhari is very simple: in terms of the cycle, like any unit you will find in the Canadian Forces, in Afghanistan, with the U.S., there comes a point when that unit has to rotate in order to retrain their people, get new recruits. Then they go through three levels of preparedness, and I'll use colours to illustrate my point. Red is when they start from basic, then they go to yellow, and then they go to green.
The organization that was in the Zhari area had finished the full cycle. So during the green cycle, which is the highest, they were responsible for Zhari and they did the operation they had to do. In the meantime, there's another kandak following behind, and a third one, and all at different levels. At that point, when that kandak had to retrain, we had to pull it out of Zhari so that it could retrain and then get back.
The beauty with the kandak was that instead of going back to a level red, in a very short period it was able to go back to a level yellow of preparedness. That's why we should not look at the fact that we pulled them out as a lack of success. The fact is the unit had to come out in order to retrain and get new recruits so that it could go back. Each of those kandaks, when in operation, loses a lot of people, either wounded in action or killed in action, just like we do. So they need to retrain.