Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, but they were an occupying force.

Foreign Affairs committee  I fully agree with you.

Foreign Affairs committee  I am told that, unfortunately, your time is up.

Foreign Affairs committee  It is.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's in place now; I'm just....

Foreign Affairs committee  The reason I ask that question, ma'am, is that--

Foreign Affairs committee  It's my time, so I'd like to go on here. The reason for asking the question is to point out the fact that it's very young--and you can interpret whether you want to call it a democracy or not, but you have to start someplace. I can tell you that we're very lucky to live in a cou

Foreign Affairs committee  Not necessarily in Bosnia, but more or less in Haiti. In Bosnia I was serving with the EU observer mission in Zenica.

Foreign Affairs committee  I have been.

Foreign Affairs committee  I was there for at least two weeks.

Foreign Affairs committee  It wasn't long, only two weeks.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's definitely harder because of the security environment, but it's still the same thing. If you go outside Port-au-Prince, there is no law. So what's the use of having police officers if you don't have jails, if you don't have tribunals, and if you don't have the necessary equi

Foreign Affairs committee  What we need to do is empower the people, and I think the solution is with the people. Provide them order and empower them.

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, Canada was in charge of the mission in Haiti. Therefore, the methods used were Canadian methods. In Afghanistan, as people have already told you, there are a number of chiefs. But, what I can tell you, having personally visited Canadian troops in Afghanistan, is that we are

Foreign Affairs committee  My sense is that it's because we want to make a difference that we got out of the UN missions and decided to concentrate on Afghanistan.