Foreign Affairs committee  I think the U.S. is key because in the mentality of the people from that region of the world, including ex-president Yanukovych, they never respected—and I don't think Putin does either—the European Union as a foreign policy actor. It's too diverse with too many countries trying

Foreign Affairs committee  Accountability.

Foreign Affairs committee  No. There may be other questions.

Foreign Affairs committee  One of the best investigative journalists in Ukraine, who is currently based in Washington, D.C., on a grant, named Sergii Leshchenko is talking about the need to, like I think with the Italian and Polish diasporas, give them the right to vote and to participate, because he think

Foreign Affairs committee  Pretty much everything. The U.S. has the Magnitsky bill. Surely, it's high time for Canada and western Europe to have the same kind of bill. This bill is highly detailed in its sanctions against Russian leaders.

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly if the hostilities get worse in the next day or two, as the news reports today do indicate, that obviously means that Vladimir Putin is not listening to western condemnations, and you at the very least need to throw Russia out of the G-8; at the very least. But I thin

Foreign Affairs committee  A game-changer.

Foreign Affairs committee  They're very small compared with Russian....

Foreign Affairs committee  And Jewish as well.

Foreign Affairs committee  Specifically on the language issues, my Quebecker friend is going to be a bigger expert. But certainly I agree with you. When I was there in December, as well, I met Lebanese restauranteurs from east Ukraine who were on the Maidan. This was very different from 2004, where it was

Foreign Affairs committee  I remember that when it was published there was a lot of skepticism that I was being too pessimistic. I guess it was one of those very typical Washington think-tank publications where you think about scenarios, but you never expect these scenarios to happen. There are many talk

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll give you some background to the crisis, explain why it happened, and then go into the Crimean question. Firstly, it's important to know what kind of people were in power in Ukraine. Typically for that region, for the post-Soviet region, the leaders who came to power were us