Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, I can help elaborate a bit. The amounts that Mr. Hirst has been providing, of course, are not moneys that are coming to the department as part of the budget process; they are in fact departmental funds that are being allocated. To be absolutely sure on the language, Mr.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's not just members of my department; they come from a number of departments, as you probably know: the RCMP, Corrections Canada, and a number of others from the public safety portfolio. We've been able to put a lot of people into two areas. There are the people who are working at the Kandahar airfield alongside our military folks, making sure that the cooperative effort between our military and our civilian component, particularly on the development side, works really well.