Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, as you will remember, we conduct after-action reviews at each level. SOFCOM conducted their own after action review. CJOC conducted their own, and we did a Canadian Armed Forces one led by SJS.

Afghanistan committee  It is a classified report. I'm not sure of the rules that surround that. We'll have to take that one away and find out what the rules are.

Afghanistan committee  We provided input to a PCO-led post-operation review. I have not seen the output of that.

Afghanistan committee  Yes.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, as you know, during the election period the minister retained his authorities as minister, so where we sought authorities from and the daily briefings did not change. Probably the most challenging aspect was the ability to communicate and the tighter control on the ab

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, from our time that we served there together in Kandahar, I am not surprised. They have not changed their approach from when they ruled the country in the 1990s.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, I've been thinking about this question for the last 15 years, since serving there in 2007. It could be a number of different areas, but I'm not sure the premise of “where did we fail” is accurate because we provided some excellent training and some excellent equipment.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, if I understand the question correctly, it is whether we could have stayed longer to conduct more evacuation flights.

Afghanistan committee  In terms of starting earlier, we started very shortly after the request came in. Given what's called “ramp space” and “slots”, the number of slots that we could have for Canada limited the number of flights that we could put in. In terms of staying longer, the deteriorating secu

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, I don't have that answer. I'll ask Admiral Auchterlonie; perhaps he does.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, one of the success stories that we saw, or one of the points to sustain out of this operation, was the daily interdepartmental task force meetings at the assistant deputy minister level. If not daily, almost every second day at the deputy minister-CDS level, we had to

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, I would just like to add that I am extremely proud of the work that our people did during the course of this crisis in some very trying circumstances. We had one member on the ground who had, I believe, 10 or 12 deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq and had seen some pre

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, first let me correct the premise of the purpose of Operation Aegis. It wasn't just to evacuate Afghans; it was also to evacuate Canadian citizens and Canadian entitled people. It's interesting to note that those listed on the ROCA, the registration of Canadians abroad,

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, I have personally had contact with a number of the members of those groups. I, too, felt the same sort of distress when Afghans that I'd served with would reach out to me, and I was not able to support them in the way I would like. I had to be very careful as well, as

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, there were varying degrees of interpreter clearance, depending on the roles we were having them do. Some will be granted full security clearance based on the roles and the intelligence that are going to be accessed. For others who are hired locally, the screening is le