Mr. Daryl Kramp (Prince Edward—Hastings, CPC):
I routinely and regularly am in contact with large numbers of our men and women who have come back from Afghanistan. I’ve talked to well over a hundred personally now, and I’ve been in the habit of asking every one of them the identical question. To every one of them, I say, “Are you making a difference? Do you feel you’re helping the people in Afghanistan?”
Hon. Bev Oda:
In the area of education, I just reported on the improvement in enrollment. Now we’re actually working on projects with EQUIP and the Aga Khan Foundation, and we’re actually looking at curriculum-based textbooks that will be developed and distributed. We’re also looking at increasing teacher education. So you can see that just in the area of education, we’ve moved the progress forward. We’re now establishing the basic fundamentals for starting to build an education system.
So we are making a difference, yes.
Source: 39th Parliament, 2nd Session
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