Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Broadbent, I wholeheartedly agree with your suggestion. I'll come back to it in a second.
What is the possibility of a government-to-government dialogue between Canada and Cuba, and at the same time between the United States and Cuba?
I think the United States is becoming a little more pragmatic in many areas. They tried to support the dissidents in Iran and failed miserably. They also had some other failures in that kind of effort. But now they're talking openly of the Iraq situation to Iran. They're not poking fingers in their eyes anymore. Also, some of these latest successes, as far as Mullah Dadullah and others are concerned, have been because of a certain time for dialogue. Embargos and restrictions and sanctions have not helped against Iran in the past either.
I'd like to receive your comments, sir. Even against Korea they're talking through multilateral channels. Do you think that kind of approach or rapprochement with Cuba would be beneficial?
Second, how do you see both Castro and Cuba evolving?
Coming back to the democracies, democracy has a price in some of the developing countries. I'm sure most people here are not strangers to that. The international community cannot be successful or helpful until and unless you see people on the street—mass demonstrations, those kinds of things. That sends a signal that change needs to happen. If you have 75 people or 200 people in jail for speaking up, I don't think a lot of the world is going to be interested, really. We can talk all we want about human rights; they will probably take another century.
I would like to receive your comment, Mr. Broadbent.