That will be acceptable to six million Tibetans. That's good for us. Even now, the present Dalai Lama is not acceptable to the Chinese government but is acceptable to us and six million Tibetans inside Tibet. That's the crux of the issue. Again, it's about Buddhism. It's about spirituality. The one recognized by the Dalai Lama will be embraced by Tibetans. Ultimately, spirituality is a matter of heart, a matter of faith. You can't force anyone's faith. You cannot buy anyone's faith. They have to believe it. It comes from the heart. For the last 60 years, Tibetans inside Tibet have had faith and loyalty to his holiness the Dalai Lama. That's why 152 Tibetans who have committed self-immolation have two slogans: restore freedom for Tibetans, and return his holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet. This is a third generation of Tibetans still asking for the return of his holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet.
At the same time, as for his holiness the Dalai Lama's vision, in 2001, he separated church and state and delegated all his political authority to elected leadership, which happened to be me and the Parliament at that time. We also have two tracks. There's a spiritual track and the democratic track. Among sixty million refugees and members of the diaspora around the world, perhaps Tibetan democracy is a role model. It's a well-practised implemented democracy that you can see. That's what we are practising.
Perhaps on this issue of reincarnation.... The U.S. Senate recently passed a unanimous resolution saying the reincarnation is the business of the Tibetan people; the next Dalai Lama will be recognized by the Dalai Lama and no one else; and the Chinese government has no role whatsoever.
If there was a similar resolution by this committee and perhaps, ideally, by the Canadian Parliament saying that spirituality is a matter of the Tibetan people and reincarnation of the Dalai Lama should be decided by the Dalai Lama, that would be a fair resolution. If that happened, it would be very good.
Our democracy is a genuine democracy. There is no Tibetan characteristic; it's a universal characteristic.