Yes. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
You mentioned in your speaking notes, Dr. Matthews, the lack of mature democratization. On the other hand, there's discussion of autonomy and self-determination. If we turn the clock back to the British rule before independence, obviously the British had to face this aspect of possible self-determination and autonomy at that time too, and yet they failed to approach it, for whatever reasons. Now we bring it forward to today, and I would think it would be equally as problematic to try to approach, because self-determination and autonomy is in itself divisive and might be of concern to the government.
My question is whether this would be a role that perhaps the British Commonwealth could approach and have some input into, because they obviously have past experience with it and they may be able to lend some kind of thought on what could and could not be accomplished by taking that direction. It's certainly not the first country in the world that has found it very, very difficult to deal with self-determination for smaller terrorist groups and organizations, and there may be a real resistance to doing it.
Given that the situation has been exasperated by a lot of terrorism and a minority population, could the Commonwealth play a role in trying to help determine feasibility or no feasibility, as the case may be, for the government?