Mr. Speaker, that is a poor answer from the wrong minister.
Like the foreign affairs minister, this is a PR driven exercise. The minister never left the compound. The government is more concerned about diverting attention away from the fact that it is spending nine times more on a combat mission than it is on the development on the ground.
There is no accounting on whether this aid money is getting through or whether it is actually helping.
When will we see the efforts in Afghanistan significantly increased instead of seeing $35,000 photo ops?