Thank you, Mr. Garneau.
My understanding is that there have been certain divisions of opinion within the Saudi Arabian political establishment itself about Saudi Arabia's regional role, and that certain steps have been taken to try to control the flow of funds, and much more needs to be done. Part of the solution, as I explained, is to dis-incentivize the use of religious extremism as an instrument of power in the region. Of course, part of that also is to accommodate Iran, which also is using religious extremism for its own purposes. That's why I explained, there's a kind of dialectic of extremism, but the funding flows are very important.
The danger, though, is that ISIS, unlike al-Qaeda, is a state that has resources that it can use to raise revenues on the black market. So beyond cutting the funding from the Gulf States, that is another problem that has to be accommodated. There were even some accounts of the Assad regime buying oil from ISIL in the early months of its rise, apparently to help ISIL gain some further strength and prominence. As I explained, in a very cynical strategy of positioning, the Assad regime is the lesser evil of the two.