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Afghanistan committee  So this is very difficult, but that's what they're trying to do.

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

Afghanistan committee  No, I believe that... Obviously, there are differences between the two situations. All I can say is that when we were negotiating our agreement, since there had previously been problems with detainee transfers to the American authorities, as you had said in the House when I was there, we felt that while we were in Afghanistan, the best solution to our problems was to deal with the Afghans.

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

Afghanistan committee  For reasons of capacity. We did not have the capacity to do that and engage in combat at the same time.

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

Afghanistan committee  No, I believe, as the member mentioned... Obviously, the Americans have a spotless record in most cases. The problem was that they were determined to transfer prisoners where they wanted, to Guantanamo and elsewhere. We did not feel at the time that this was an appropriate solution for the Canadian government.

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

Afghanistan committee  No, I do not know her.

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

Afghanistan committee  I read a newspaper account of what she had said on television.

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

Afghanistan committee  No, certainly not. Mr. Bachand, we are talking about the Department of Foreign Affairs. If this women had written a report, she would have submitted it to the authorities in that department.

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

Afghanistan committee  That's right.

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

Afghanistan committee  All I can tell you is that the authorities in the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of National Defence agreed on the terms of this agreement and that the Government of Canada supported the signing of the agreement.The authorities in Ms. Olexiuk's department therefore decided, based on their knowledge of the situation, that they would sign the agreement.

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

Afghanistan committee  I respond by saying that we believed at the time the two provisions for monitoring that were put in the agreement—namely, the Red Cross, on the one hand, and the human rights commission of Afghanistan—were monitoring procedures that would satisfy our responsibilities in international law; that this was the best that we were going to get from the Government of Afghanistan of the day; and that we had to get this agreement signed.

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

Afghanistan committee  No, we did not have—

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

Afghanistan committee  We were only aware that there were other agreements being negotiated at the time. My recollection, actually, is that when we were discussing this matter in the House of Commons in November, in the take note debate, Mr. Blaikie raised the matter of detainees. He gave me a copy of the Danish agreement, I believe, and I took that to the authorities and said, “Are we getting as much as the Danes?”

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

Afghanistan committee  I really couldn't speak to that. That's pure.... I would really say, sir, that if we're talking here about--

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham

Afghanistan committee  No, we're talking about criminal responsibility of individuals for acts, and as a cautious lawyer, I would suggest that one should allow tribunals that were established for that purpose to establish those facts.

May 12th, 2010Committee meeting

William Graham