Sure, I'll be happy to do that.
Mr. Chairman, our officers abroad are also charged with providing security screening advice to Citizenship and Immigration Canada regarding screening. Last year, we received 329,000 immigration-related security screening requests. The program focuses on visitors, and refugee claimants. It is important for Canada to be able to push out its borders.
Before concluding, I would like to say a few words about Afghanistan.
The news that CSIS is operating in Afghanistan has often been greeted with relative surprise and even in some quarters a bit of bewilderment. I don't quite understand this, because it seems logical that a government committing itself to a project as complex, dangerous, and ambitious as routing al-Qaeda and helping to stand up democratic institutions would wish to take full advantage of all of its available resources.
There seems to be a general sense among--