In many other countries with difficulties and social unrest, one common denominator seems to be that a lot of the politics have become ethnically divided. That creates a tremendous number of difficulties in trying to have a reasonable outcome. Looking down the road in the long term, perhaps an influence Canada could have on the situation would be through working on democracy development in regions such as this to help to heal the past and start a new direction.
On March 23rd, 2009. See this statement in context.