It's an empirical question and a very tough one. I don't honestly have a good answer to it, but skepticism is rolling forward as I hear your characterization of the position. Institutional weaknesses are the kinds of weaknesses one would look at, rather than GNP or an income number.
If I can take advantage of this—and I'll do it very quickly and very much in the interest of the committee—I know there was a lot of discussion about Afghanistan earlier on. There has been, of course, quite an important interdepartmental discussion going on now for more than a year. It has been a three-D discussion about Canada's policy with respect to failed and failing states. At the heart of this notion are issues of human rights, responsibility to protect, and humanitarian law. I would suggest to you strongly that there's this already quite mature work under way interdepartmentally. In the course of your study, you probably want to see that in front of you or have some of those involved in developing it come to speak to you as we are today.