You know, it's interesting; you made me think of something that I didn't bring up. To be honest with you, I'm not quite sure how this works out in Canada. I know that in the United States we have the Alien Tort Claims Act. It would be interesting to think about whether or not a civil suit in tort, as you mention, could be filed under that. Lots of human rights cases have been brought in the form of Alien Tort Claims Act litigation.
Of course, because you're dealing with a state leader, you deal with issues of immunity, issues of immunity that you don't have to deal with at the ICC. If you look at the Rome Statute, there's not going to be an immunity. That's why Bashir has been indicted.
I don't know if Canada has something like that. If it does, and if you could get around the immunity, that could be another possibility. Symbolically, it would be another way of making a statement. You could have plaintiffs who would say that they were either victims of the terrorist violence inflicted by Hamas or Hezbollah, or people who would say--this would be an interesting Alien Tort Claims Act case in the United States--that they were the victims of incitement to genocide and that therefore they have an action from that.
So it's an excellent question. It actually has made me think about the fact that maybe that's yet another avenue that could be pursued. I'm less sanguine about the success of that one, especially given the immunity.
You know, it's a private litigation with plaintiffs. I'm less convinced that would be as effective a message as the other ones we've talked about. But it's certainly something you could add to the smorgasbord.