Certainly if we could deploy election observers 10 days or two weeks before the election, they'd get a better sense of what's happening on the ground. They establish contact with the people that they need to. What I would not recommend right now, given the uncertainty in southern and eastern Ukraine, is that we deploy any civilian personnel into an environment that is frankly explosive, where they would not be able to secure their own safety. That is not something which I think the Government of Canada should do.
I think it's important that we not put Canadians in a vulnerable position because should their security be compromised, the Government of Canada would find itself frankly in a dreadfully difficult position.