Mr. Latulippe, you are not unaware that this evaluation is hard to do because democracy itself is a subject that is not easy to evaluate. Some in Canada may currently feel that democracy is weakening because the government lacks transparency—I'll say only that. So saying that it has to be more effective doesn't suit me. In fact, it can trouble me because that would mean that the hardest missions that Rights and Democracy has undertaken in a number of countries would be abandoned in favour of missions that would make it easier to raise funding among the Canadian public.
On April 15th, 2010. See this statement in context.