Yes, I do.
On some of the questions you have been asking of the panel and the chair, I think we can do it if we want to. We have done it when we wanted to. We can really take a leadership role in this, and we will do immensely more in helping to stabilize the region than the Americans did in spending billions and billions and billions of dollars in creating the mess there. So we can definitely do it.
Whenever I deal with a conflict like this, it really haunts me. When I was in the former Yugoslavia, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I saw unbelievable things. You fly in and see Mostar. When you're high up, it looks like a normal place; then you drop down and approach it, and you see that the roofs are gone in many cases. And when you go through the place, you find that the places where the minorities lived—the three groups, the Serbs, the Croatians, and the Muslims—have been ethnically cleansed.
I remember going to an elementary school where there was wood, or uncut lumber, up against the windows. I asked the guide why it was there, whether it was for firewood. He said, no, it was to stop grenades from being thrown in the windows. It really is awful. I can't overstate enough the tragedies that are happening to all of these people, and we can do a whole lot by providing some leadership.
Now, Mr. Dolin, you mentioned that the bureaucracy created the problem doesn't want to fix the problem. I really have concerns, because we will be dealing with Bill C-50, which would have us give more power to the bureaucracy to make the decisions. I know it says it will be done by the minister, but legal guarantees will be replaced by the pleasure of the minister, which really comes down to bureaucratic discretion, because they're the ones who are doing it. We'll be dealing with that bill, but what you said clearly points to a problem.
I said to the members of the committee, because I've been on this committee for 10 years—and I'm not just picking on the ministers of today or the Conservative ministers, as I have said this to all of the ministers—that we really haven't had ministers who have known what is going on. Their dependence on the bureaucracy means that the bureaucracy is actually running the show, and what we need is some political accountability.
So if we want action, we have to send a very strong message as to what the goals are. There has to be the political will and there has to be solidarity on the political side of it, so that we're not playing political games but are working to solve these problems.