I'd like to thank you again for your presentation, Madam Justice Arbour, and put two brief questions to you, flowing out of your presentation and your experience.
You spoke about the need for a country-tailored program in terms of allowing women to protect themselves--in other words, where Canada can champion the empowerment of women in that regard, as you put it. You used as an analogy the court challenges program. Regrettably, that court challenges program, whose importance I would share with you, has been dismantled, so I'm wondering about Canada's credibility with regard to initiating empowerment of women in terms of parliaments and courts, as you put it. You said, “NGOs can open clinics but not courts” , so the first thing is this: how do we get the Canadian government to do internationally what it has turned its back on domestically?
The second question follows from your own experience as the special prosecutor for the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. They established important principles and precedents regarding sexual violence in armed conflict. I was wondering about something that came to mind in listening to your presentation. As you said, this is about power and enforcement. What about an initiative establishing an international criminal tribunal with respect to sexual violence in armed conflict that would deal with the kinds of cases you mentioned—Haiti, Sudan, and the like?
Those are the two questions.