I can only speak from our own experiences as a trade union that's affiliated with the international trade union movement. We're already being denied at the door. Our colleagues from this organization and other organizations in Europe have been turned back upon arrival. We can't get in now, and I suspect that's the experience of other organizations like ours, be it in the trade union movement or otherwise. I don't know if that problem would be created. I think it already exists in many ways.
To pick up on where you started, it's important that we acknowledge and recognize Canada's very good relationship with Cuba already, with Cuba's people and Cuba as a nation. We've done incredible things there and have the potential to do great things. I think we need to start with the fact that we have that good relationship. And with Mr. Castro and his cohorts, as we would with other organizations in which we have a fraternal relationship, we should gently call them to account on the areas where they've been in stark violation of rights, such as the nine and the 60 that are still in prison, as Canada once did in 1997, if I'm not mistaken, when Mr. Chrétien publicly called Mr. Castro to account, as you would a good friend. That's the kind of relationship that we have with Cuba.
It's important that Canada maintain that relationship. We're not asking that Canada remove itself from Cuba. We think that an American-style embargo would be a deplorable place to end up at in terms of Canada's relationship. Nonetheless, we have a good relationship, and as we continue to trade with Cuba, as we continue to provide federal investment, we can leverage that money in some respects, as a good partner can, to say we will continue on this relationship, but we can set in place some benchmarks, some goals that Cuba will achieve if it wants to continue to receive the amount of money and trade that Canada has been providing for 30 years.