It is important to understand that the foreign service directives include five levels of security against which all countries where people are deployed are evaluated. The evaluation looks at issues such as access to care, the quality of that care and, obviously, whether there are any problems in the country. The steps that were taken specifically for Afghanistan go beyond the top level, level five, for specific reasons, because Canada was considered to be at war in that country. The other countries where there are serious security issues are already covered by the current foreign service directives.
