I think if anybody in your committee does an analysis of articles from The Guardian or some of the foreign press that's been very critical of some of our allies and the way they've been spending money through the UN, particularly in Syria....
Here's what happens, in our case. Ms. Freeland when she was foreign affairs minister, said, look, these are bad people, so I'm going to put them on a sanctions list, a PNG list, and we're going to freeze their assets. These are bad folks in Syria and we can never work with them. They're sanctioned.
Ms. Bibeau, in her office the very next tower over—I honestly can't make this stuff up—then pledged an incredible amount of money through a UN agency that was actually working with the very same people who are on the sanctions list. The UN, because it doesn't have the same accountability to you as an agency as ours would, actually spends funds.... And you can look this up in articles. The UN spent $10 million in a hotel in Damascus that's owned by a gunman, a thug, who's the right hand of al-Assad. And this is my tax dollar going in through these systems.
This happened with the U.S. This happened with the U.K. This happened with Australia. It was amazing to see that we didn't really raise those points here, because it certainly happened with our money. These are some of the concerns that occur, which is why we can't just rely only on UN systems. We really need to put more of a focus on some of the smaller groups, because they can do so much more.
I'm just saying this is a big sector. We can all help, and we can all do our part. Right now, the system is too heavily weighted towards the big fish in the sea.