I think it would definitely help. We don't want to undermine the whole process by being very political in that, but there have to be some credible documents in terms of sanctioning government heads, especially for someone like Ahmadinejad, being the President of the Iranian Islamic Republic. As we know, the U.S. had a very hard time preventing him from going to the States, despite all the difficulties. It has to be played within the international rules and norms, but I think a lot of Iranian people don't see the news and sometimes the people have gathered in the hundreds welcoming Ahmadinejad. This is all just really a sham, all just showing off. But the Iranian people would welcome any international support in condemning the actions of their leaders, because the Iranians are actually coming out in the hundreds and thousands themselves sometimes to condemn these actions.
I think if individual countries are taking measures to sanction someone like Ahmadinejad, it's possible, and I think it would have a productive effect.
One thing that could be done is we should start from somewhere maybe lower and there are other individuals who are directly involved that could be sanctioned. There might be cases against them. For example, someone like Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the previous president, has an indictment by the German court for being involved in a 1992 assassination. For the previous Iranian foreign ministry it's the same thing. They have a bank account in Europe with millions of dollars in it, and they are still able to go freely to a lot of the gulf countries, and lately Rafsanjani had gone to Iraq. I think there is an Interpol warrant for these individuals, but really there is no action being done. I think perhaps the Interpol authority doesn't go beyond the European borders. But it's possible that Canada can push for such action and measures. Rafsanjani, the previous president before Khatami, was directly involved in not only the 1992 assassination of Iranian Kurdish leaders but also in the 1994 bombing of the Jewish centre in Argentina. There's an indictment of the then Iranian leaders of the foreign ministry, the head of the intelligence, as well as the then president.
So I think it's possible to do it, but we have to start somewhere. I think the ones who have been indicted are going around freely, and we should start from those and then we can go on to someone like Ahmadinejad.