Afghanistan committee  Well, it's obviously extraordinarily complicated, but I think it depends on whether you're a glass half-full person or a glass half-empty person. I tend to be on the optimistic side. I think the glass is more half-full, and I'd like to believe that we're making progress.

Afghanistan committee  No, as I said at the beginning, I think it's really important for the committee to make sure that they get to the bottom of it and that the public know the transparency is there. These are serious allegations, and I think the committee's doing serious work to make sure the Canadi

Afghanistan committee  Yes; well, the assurance was that specifically the Geneva Conventions would be respected, and so, absolutely, that's contained within it, along with a host of other things, yes.

Afghanistan committee  We certainly believed that the agreement was capable of ensuring our obligations. And I believe or understand, without being completely au fait with all the facts, that there were circumstances subsequently when military officials decided they wouldn't transfer prisoners when the

Afghanistan committee  Well, I don't know about written assurances, but I can tell you I had personal conversations with Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, who was the foreign minister, my counterpart, about the importance of the agreement and the importance for the Canadian public to know that we were living up t

Afghanistan committee  We knew there were risks. That is why we put the provisions in the agreement we signed. If there had not been risks, we would not have put anything in the agreement.

Afghanistan committee  There were no transfers when I was there.

Afghanistan committee  The agreement was signed on December 15. I had my hands full with the election on January 16.

Afghanistan committee  The only prisoner was me, in Rosedale, Toronto Centre.

Afghanistan committee  Yes.

Afghanistan committee  There were no transfers.

Afghanistan committee  Yes, we tried to do our best to do that. Yes, sir.

Afghanistan committee  Yes.

Afghanistan committee  Well, we had regular discussions about Afghanistan itself, which translated into a lot of...but around prisoners, I can't recall any specific cabinet discussion about this issue other than, as I said, I wrote the Prime Minister to get authority to work on the issue. I know that t

Afghanistan committee  You can appreciate that we got a large volume of traffic on all sorts of different issues. We had to look at the problem of what was the proper equipment to be sending. That was a huge thing, because it was a large matter and we had to get money for it. We had to deal with all th