Thank you very much for appearing here this afternoon.
First of all, we have heard from many witnesses, and I have also the privilege to have a Tamil temple in my riding and I understand the major suffering of your community. It's a very major one for those living in the camps and the ones who are being kept as hostages in the northeast region.
You mentioned, Ms. Sivalingam, that there was a ceasefire under the umbrella of Norway that was successful, but after that there were no more ceasefires. Right now you've asked our government to bring pressure with the United Nations and to keep applying pressure, but it doesn't seem to affect the current Sri Lankan government. They don't care about this, and I think if they cared they would start to do something. The only time they're going to do something will be at the defeat of the LTTE. That's my understanding, and maybe I'm wrong about this.
But which countries are...[Inaudible--Editor]...the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE, in a sense? If the United Nations doesn't work, maybe we can put pressure through the Commonwealth. Maybe this could succeed. We saw it with Zimbabwe and some other countries in a sense. But which country could really help Canada and some other countries to put a lot of pressure on the government?
Is there any chance there will be a ceasefire? I don't know too much about the LTTE. The only thing we hear is from witnesses who come here. It seems they'll be defeated. They're just localized in a very small region in the northeast. I don't say that one day there'll be no more LTTE, but in the meantime, would anyone like to discuss--on both sides--a ceasefire?