Sir, I'd like to address another question that we're grappling with.
Canada is a big believer in multilateralism, especially with countries that we consider part of the western liberal democracy club of countries. We're tremendous supporters of the UN, but we see that the UN Security Council has not been able to act on sanctions because of a flawed structure. Russia or China, both grave human rights abusers, tend to veto any of those attempts.
Of course, we love to do things in tandem with our European Union allies, but they have a system that requires 28 countries to agree, which is problematic, especially with a situation where you have countries, currently, for instance, Bulgaria and Romania, that are not in favour of sanctions. We may perhaps be seeing a new era of isolationism with our North American colleagues.
Someone said previously on a panel that looking for unity among all of these countries may be searching for the lowest common denominator. In fact, it almost seems as if trying to do things multilaterally may be problematically difficult.
What are your thoughts with regard to a country taking a principled position, a leadership position, and saying we believe that a country should respect human rights? With regard to those who grossly abuse them, especially those officials directly involved in abusing them, we will stand firm and say that they will be sanctioned. We don't want their money or these individuals coming to our country.
What are your thoughts on those points?