As the minister, I was given the authority, through government policy, to support the evacuation. That was received from Global Affairs Canada on July 27. I then gave direction to the Canadian Armed Forces to support the airlift. At that time, I wasn't that involved.
However, once we had to evacuate all of our Canadian embassy personnel and pull out completely, because the Taliban had taken all of Kabul.... The work intensified on August 19, when we had to reinsert with the U.K. The U.S. came up with a plan to safely continue the evacuation.