Thank you very much for your presentation. It was extremely well informed, and we very much appreciate your being here.
Canada, as has been noted, has an obligation, under domestic and international law, as a signatory to the Rome Statute and the genocide convention, and of course, as the authors of the responsibility to protect concept, to single out these leaders who in fact dehumanize, incite genocide, and commit crimes against humanity. We need to bring this issue as soon as possible to the ICC. Under our universal jurisdiction, we need to act.
The reason he is able to get away with such hateful words is quite simple: the Supreme Leader of Iran allows it and shares those sentiments. In fact, it's not just Ahmadinejad who is a great concern, with his hate mongering that goes on, but also there is that institution of the Revolutionary Guards.
So we have to single out an individual who has been more vocal and hopefully show, as a warning to the rest of the leadership within that country, that they can't get away with it. But he is not alone, and we know that. This is a regime that is very brutal, that massacres its own people, that is, as you mentioned, persecuting the Bahá'ís, the Baluchis, and other religious minority groups, that has executed over 100,000 people since the revolution, that has in fact, contrary to conventions it has signed on the rights of the child, executed minors. People known to be gay have also been executed. So this is a brutal regime that, unfortunately, still gets some recognition from some world leaders and even from some western leaders through their financial dealings with certain countries. We, as a country, have a moral obligation, especially given the fact that we have both the responsibility to protect doctrine we've been standing behind and supporting and a commitment to the ICC, to do whatever we can.
So I agree with you, and I praise you for your leadership and also for the way you've set up the parameters for how we can go about doing that. That was more of a comment, but I'd certainly be quite grateful to hear anything else you could add.