I had six months' experience in Saudi Arabia in the seventies--we can talk about that another time--and it's far from the country as portrayed.
If you saw a look of concern on my face, Ms. Golberg, when you were starting your testimony, I think I have to put it into context. We've sat on this committee and we've listened to testimony about the butchery of albinos. Recently we had testimony about “boy dance” in Afghanistan, where young boys are dressed as women and sold off to the highest bidder.
When you came in here, you obviously approached this from a very high level, and you were kind of parsing words at one point there. So at first I was kind of backing away from your testimony, to be very frank with you. And then you started talking more about what's happening on the ground.
I realize you have to deal with these things at a high level. We're talking about the rape of women and children, and how in countries this is being used as an ugly tool of war. It sounds from testimony as though this is spreading, in the African nations particularly.
But coming back to your Canadian action plan--and I may be mistaken in this--there are detractors of the government here who all the time will say that the dollars haven't been delivered through the action plan for Canada. I thought I heard something similar in what you said, that you're in the process of building a plan, but not too much is actually going out the door. Is that a failure of dollars? Again, in the testimony, someone was talking about being unaware of where the moneys are going to be, and wondering what the future budget will be since there's no indication.
How much faith do you have that you're going to be able to actually do some fairly significant things with this plan?