There is another forum that this issue probably should be taken to, and it's of course the OSCE, which has been very much involved in elections over the years. I have been in Ukraine myself with them, I believe six times now. It's an organization of 56 countries: Canada and the United States, of course, and 54 European countries. Ukraine is a member and Russia is a member.
I was in Kazakhstan--in Astana--at one of their forums when the delegation from Ukraine put forward a resolution on the Holodomor. As an indication of what happens at these forums, once again Russia was in a bit of difficulty. Russia, through several of the countries, wanted to water down that resolution and effectively neutralize it, to change it from being a resolution that the Holodomor was the act of one man, Stalin, which it was, to its being an act of nature, which it was not.
I had the opportunity to work with the delegation from Ukraine, to stand on my chair and confront the actions that Russia was aggressively taking through several other countries. We were able to get that resolution through unchanged. Not a single word changed in it at the end of the plenary, and they went back to Ukraine with it completely intact, but this is an indication of Russia's influence, whether it's influencing Ukraine from the inside or from the outside.
So you really do have quite a handful in this scenario. I'm wondering if you shouldn't be taking this issue to the OSCE and having it discussed at one of their upcoming meetings, because this will be an ongoing scenario. I would think that it would be well worthwhile having it out in the forum of 56 countries, with a resolution perhaps being passed and accepted. It's a message.
But with that in mind, perhaps you could tell us what you envision as some of the influences coming from Russia, including influence by Russia on other countries, in the upcoming election expected in 2012. What could we expect and what should we be watching for? I'm sure many Canadians will be returning for a monitoring of that election. What can we expect?