Thank you very much for your analysis. For all practical purposes, the background I have fits in with what you've been saying.
In terms of what you've been saying, then, what you've said, all these things fit. The challenges are great, are too much, are very strong. But I'll allude to one point: the international community, everybody, is tired of this constant warring. I would not hesitate to say that even India is tired of the constant eruption of humanitarian crises and so on.
We in Canada have a strong Tamil community or diaspora. I think it's the largest outside of Sri Lanka and India. With regard to the role of the diaspora, going back to my last question, there are new people, new players. I think the LTTE is probably on its way. It carries too much baggage or something like that. I do not dispute what the last speaker said, that he felt it is gone, and if the political situation is not resolved, somebody will replace it.
It is critically important that we resolve the political issue. If it's left festering, somebody else will come in and replace this, and it'll carry on and on. This young, dynamic community outside of Sri Lanka has a very strong, key role to play. Many of them have alluded to putting in the Canadian federation system there, or whatever; you alluded to it.
I agree that the current Sri Lankan government is a hard-stand government, no question, as compared with the previous one. Whatever reasons they have for being that way, it doesn't change the fact that it's time now for the international community to put pressure, whether through ODA or not. But collectively speaking, we have to use the diaspora. We have to use it but we have to come up with a solution, a new kind of solution. The time is right now. I believe the time is right; you alluded to that a bit.
This is the question I have for your academic circle, and it's the same thing I asked the Tamil community: has debate started within the community around the goalposts now, around the LTTE almost being gone, around the hard-line government, around where we go from here?