OTTAWA -- The Afghan-Canadian governor of Kandahar is asking Canada for tractors, not tanks, for his troubled province.
Tooryalai Wesa says the way to improve security and fight insurgency in Kandahar is with job creation, advanced agricultural technology, and teachers who can show Afghans how to use it.
During a stop in Ottawa where he met with federal cabinet ministers, Wesa said "we should learn from history."
He says Afghanistan would not be in its current situation if Russia invaded the country in 1979 with 50,000 tractors instead of a similar number of tanks.
Wesa says he sees only possibility where most of the rest of the world sees violence and despair.
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The former agricultural expert at the University of British Columbia left his home in the Vancouver suburb of Port Coquitlam to become governor of Kandahar last month.
