The government’s top players on the Afghan file put their heads together last week at the third edition of RoCK Talk, a forum that just keeps on growing.
Whereas the first RoCK Talk (named for the Representative of Canada in Kandahar) was a modest 20-person affair in Kandahar City, this edition attracted some 150 officials from across government.
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Also on hand were folks like Canadian Ambassador to Pakistan Randolph Mank and Canada’s number two in Kabul Ben Roswell, as well as some civil society types like Aga Khan Foundation Canada CEO Khalil Shariff. In fact, the only obvious absence was Ambassador to Afghanistan Ron Hoffman—but then somebody has to man the fort.
The main focus of the meeting was to bring the “Class of 2009″—the Canadian civilians that will be deploying to Afghanistan this summer—up to speed.
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