Afghanistan committee  I can tell you that we put in place the December 2005 arrangement. At that time, with the information we knew, people worked through 2006 to improve the situation. By the time 2007 arrived and we had additional concerns reported, we moved very quickly to put a new arrangement in place.

Afghanistan committee  We did have protocols in place with the Afghans for the separate treatment of any under-aged people found on the battlefield or collected. They were taken to separate facilities. They were not put in with the prison population, and they were dealt with by Afghanistan's Ministry of Justice.

Afghanistan committee  They went into the Afghan justice system and to halfway houses and correctional facilities for minors.

Afghanistan committee  David is the name.

Afghanistan committee  Thank you for this opportunity to come here.

Afghanistan committee  We established the new arrangement so we could speak with that degree of confidence.

Afghanistan committee  I can say we have no evidence that any Canadian-transferred detainees were mistreated.

Afghanistan committee  It was a major concern for me, because the prison visits were and remain extremely dangerous. It takes a high degree of training, and there is a significant degree of risk in deploying people through the streets of Kandahar and into prisons that just about anywhere can be dangerous places, but in Afghanistan are particularly dangerous, as we saw with the Sarposa incident.

Afghanistan committee  We established the arrangement and everything that went with it--

Afghanistan committee  The problem was that there was abuse reported in various institutions in Afghanistan. That possibility existed.

Afghanistan committee  Yes.

Afghanistan committee  We had visited prisons, but we didn't have a monitoring regime in place.

Afghanistan committee  We had commitments in place from the Government of Afghanistan, and we had situations where the AIHRC and the ICRC went into the prisons.

Afghanistan committee  We had no evidence that detainees were being mistreated.

Afghanistan committee  We had reporting from the--