Bernard Patry at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

Merci beaucoup.

Thank you very much, Mr. Deng, for appearing this morning.

Last week the committee met with Mr. Gareth Evans, the former foreign minister in Australia. He came for some other issue, but he is a co-chair at the United Nations, and a co-author of The Responsibility to Protect. What is your understanding of the current implementation at the UN level of this “responsibility to protect” doctrine? That's my first question.

Here's the second one. In 2009, Senator Roméo Dallaire and the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies cooperated to produce a report entitled Mobilizing the Will to Intervene. It included recommendations to the governments of Canada and United States. What is your opinion about it?

Thank you.