I'll just add a little bit to that.
I think what Alex said is right; when I went across the country to talk about the UPR and get groups engaged, I was floored with the response. Civil society responds to this.
I think it may be somewhat unique to Canada. I've travelled around the world. I've done human rights work in many places. I find that people here are able to very quickly translate the issues and concerns into human rights language and framework.
So I think civil society is certainly ripe for what you're suggesting and for what Alex was suggesting, engaging in real consultations with, as Alex said, not the usual suspects. I met groups and organizations and encountered issues that I didn't know were going on, and I'm a human rights advocate; I get around a fair bit in this country. So I think there is something to be said for just doing that.
I will also say that we in civil society have not been supported in our efforts to try to do post-UPR work to keep it going. There are no funds for us to do that. There's no institutional support. There are no means for us to do it. Those of us who happen to be based in Ottawa gather at Amnesty, basically, and some of us use our volunteer time to make things happen. So if...that is not a fulsome support of civil society in this endeavour.
There's one other point I would make. I think there's the “big” UPR--that is, dealing with the UPR and getting people to understand the UPR as a whole, the process, all these recommendations. Then I think there's another approach that can be taken. It's a little bit more piecemeal, and I think it's good that it's piecemeal. That's why I brought up Bill C-304, the housing legislation, which is going for third reading. That's a very small piece of the pie but it's an important one. Housing has been a major issue with every treaty-monitoring body since 1993, as has poverty, homelessness. Here's one little piece responding to all of that. I think those little piecemeal approaches can be effective as well.