Hélène Laverdière at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On May 2nd, 2012. See this statement in context.

May 2nd, 2012 / 5:15 p.m.

NDP

Hélène Laverdière NDP Laurier—Sainte-Marie, QC

I think I still have time for a question.

You also mention you fear that at some point, if civil forms of protest are not tolerated in Ethiopia, the situation could explode and the population could use other means to express its discontent.

Now we know that we cannot predict when a situation will explode in a country. We've seen it with the Arab Spring. Are there movements within the population? Is there risk of some sort of revolution or revolt, or something like that?

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