Foreign Affairs committee  Perhaps I could just add one quick point to that. There is an important role here as well for parliamentarians to play on this question because there are a number of international parliamentary organizations, whether it's the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Commonwealth Parliament

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, perhaps I could add one point with respect to Canada's role in this. Recently, the Eminent Persons Group of the Commonwealth issued a report--in fact, Senator Hugh Segal from Canada is one of the 11 members of that Eminent Persons Group--in which they made precisely