Thank you.
Last year the National Post wrote a wonderful article about the 2% tax. They interviewed several people who paid the 2% tax, and they explained clearly how the extortion takes place. Even the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney, was interviewed, and he stated clearly that this is illegal. We wrote a letter, as a human rights group, to Foreign Affairs, to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, about this issue. Unfortunately, we haven't heard back yet, but what they say is that the Canadian government knows this is totally illegal.
The difficulty that we have now so far is to convince many Eritreans to speak up. Of course, there were several people who were willing to speak up, and that's why the story was able to come out. Still, there are many who really want to speak if their name is going to be anonymous. This is a big concern. As soon as the UN monitoring group explained clearly how the extortion takes place, we have been trying to push it farther. We didn't really push it as much as we could before the UN Security Council did that, but so far we are on a good track, I believe.