I have just a brief question. I think we've learned from our inquiry into China and the Canada-China bilateral dialogue on human rights that things are not always what they may seem to be. We have frameworks, but they may serve more to shield problems than to in fact unmask them.
This particularly is to you, Ed, because of your experience in this particular aspect of our work.
Much of our involvement in Cuba is through CIDA, and that involvement, as has been mentioned, in CIDA is through development assistance programs. I looked at some. We support Cuban NGOs in local development initiatives. We had a conference recently, a round table on the Cuban economy. We have a project to improve transparency, to train 6,000 Cuban auditors and trade experts in free trade negotiations. We're supporting initiatives regarding innovative government capacity issues. These are a lot of buzzwords that I've become familiar with over the years, “capacity building”, “transparency”, “governance”, and all that.
Are we really using that whole approach there to in fact do something about the protection of civil and political rights, or are we just indulging that part in Cuba that, as you mentioned, is not the place where rights are being deprived, the socio-economic area, but we're not really focusing on the nerve centres where we should be?