Thank you very much.
It is important to be said that we have people coming to committee and suggestions being made--why doesn't Canada just move in and do this and do that and make demands? I think you said it very well in your report here when you said the government is citing safety and security in the conflict zone, that the UN has indicated that the Government of Sri Lanka has made it clear that the UN must stop making such requests, given that they will not be accepted. We can only do what the government will allow, short of invading the country.
Having said that, we appreciate what we have been doing in trying to engage with Sri Lanka and to help the Tamils and those officials who are on the ground right now in difficult circumstances.
My question really comes from Mr. Patry's perspective here. We have heard from some of the witnesses about “Sinhalisation”, if you want to call it that. With the changes in the state religion to make it Buddhism and the changes in educational requirements, which make it harder for people who aren't primarily Sinhalese speakers to get into higher education, to get government jobs, and so on, do we have a plan or some expertise through CIDA, through our development agencies, to break through some of these challenges and help restructure the government afterwards, or to encourage it with the kinds of steps that would be helpful in engaging a more comprehensive society that would allow everybody to participate?