I think we have all along spoken against the laws of discrimination against Ahmadis here in Canada. Many initiatives have been taken—I remember at the time Mr. Joe Clark was the foreign affairs minister, and later on with every government—and that pressure always worked.
But there is a dilemma. We have never promoted Canada's putting sanctions in place against Pakistan, because sanctions would create another type of suffering for common people. We are Canadian, but also we don't forget our roots. You are always at a loss to understand that if you put pressure on for these governments to be sanctioned, poor people will suffer, and we will be adding to the suffering, and perhaps it will not create any impression on the government.
But now things are getting out of hand and out of Pakistan; now this kind of nonsense is being exported to other countries, such as Indonesia and Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. If we don't speak out and if don't stop this kind of persecution, we would be perhaps helping those persecutors in their nefarious designs. So we have started this campaign once again, and hopefully we will be able to persuade the Government of Canada to show its interest in restoring the human rights of all minorities, not only of Ahmadis.