As I am very optimistic by nature, I will be careful about what I am about to say.
Let me give you a concrete example. President Kabila has postponed the elections for two years. His regular mandate expired on December 20, 2016. First, he postponed the elections to 2017, then to 2018. However, following the international pressure from Canada, the United States, the European Union and the African nations in the region, he ended up publishing an electoral calendar last November, and the main steps of that calendar have been observed.
If that effort had not been made and if the government had been left to its own devices, the elections would probably have been postponed again to 2019 or 2020, or the calendar would never have been published.
I feel that those kinds of results can be achieved by becoming involved. Canada is playing a major role in becoming involved with other actors.