Afghanistan committee  Let me add, sir, that I recently attended, as part of our delegation, the Dubai process, in which we brought together border police from Afghanistan and Pakistan in Dubai. At that meeting we were able to get Afghan border police officers and counter-narcotics officers into face-to-face discussions with their Pakistan counterparts.

Afghanistan committee  The Afghan side, in my personal opinion, was very receptive to the suggestion. As a matter of fact, the suggestion stemmed from their conversations with their Pakistani counterparts. They're very receptive. To go back to a question we spoke about earlier, there's a growing sense of pride amongst the Afghan National Police leadership that they can now hold their own in discussions with their neighbouring police agencies.

Afghanistan committee  Yes, if I could very briefly, in case there are any fears or considerations about how we're training our Canadian police officers we're deploying abroad. We use a very comprehensive process. Our police training over the last 12 months has moved from a two-week training process to approaching six weeks now.

Afghanistan committee  That's a very difficult question to answer. The key players that we deal with internationally from other countries are in Afghanistan. The countries that we are familiar with that teach standard policing practices and principles and ethics like we teach here in Canada are present and are doing an admirable job there in a coordinated effort.

Afghanistan committee  That's correct. I believe we have the right folks there, and I believe they're all working in conjunction now, more than ever in the past.

Afghanistan committee  Within the Afghan National Police, such as with any police force, job satisfaction comes from pride in the job you're doing. Many of the efforts of the international community and the MOI have been directed towards that, to make the Afghan national policeman want to be an Afghan national policeman, and then on to recruiting, to make other people within the country want to take up this profession.