I have two answers.
As Canada knows, there's a vast Sri Lankan diaspora, largely Tamil, but also Sinhalese as well. And within those communities there's a lot of head-to-head, a lot of disputes. In all honesty, I've tried to keep myself away from that as much as possible, just because it's so entangling and so ensnaring, but I am aware of people intimidating and threatening each other.
I know that within expat communities, not just Sri Lankan, when you're away from home for a protracted period you tend to lose your grounding and small issues become large issues. So within that community I see those problems.
I'll be quick and then I'll end. The other problem is that you can't report on Sri Lanka from Toronto. You can't do it from Bangkok or London. Journalism is going to a place, getting the facts, coming back, and writing them up and querying them. The solution to the pressure on journalists in Sri Lanka is not to have them report from outside; the solution to the pressure on journalism in Sri Lanka is to have it removed.
I'm sorry I've taken so long.