Thank you for the question.
Others in the room can better speak to the specifics of Canadian policy, so I'll leave that aside.
The background of the current leadership in Damascus is well known and not in dispute. What we can say, based not on their words but on their actions over the years, is that they have evolved, very concretely, quite a long way along the ideological spectrum. They are still Islamists. I don't think they would dispute that. However, they have become much more pragmatic and also less totalitarian over time. They have shown that they respond to positive and negative incentives.
I don't think anyone would expect countries around the world to be trusting what's in the heart of any other actor on the international scene, let alone a former jihadist group. Nobody's going to trust what's in their hearts. We're going to judge based on actions. What al-Sharaa and those around him have shown is that they respond to positive and negative incentives, so I—