Well, I think, Professor, what I've been emphasizing throughout the past number of minutes is that Indonesia's own constitution is to guarantee freedom of thought, freedom of belief, and freedom of expression. None of this—none of these ideas—is a holdover of western colonization. This is what the people themselves are to be governed by. So I think it's very important that whatever gestures or moves Canadian parliamentarians make...and do not be subtle about it. There is no need for subtlety here, because there's no sensitivity on the part of those who share our values: they want this back for their country. But in making those moves and those gestures, I think it's very important to frame them as being values that Indonesians themselves have adopted in their constitution.
I do know that the United Nations, every four years, does a review of the human rights records of certain countries. This past year, we saw it do exactly that for Indonesia. I'm sorry to say that there wasn't enough voice from, frankly, our own diplomatic corps in Indonesia.
And let me just make this point, because I think this is very, very important. When I was about to finish up the story of what happened to me vis-à-vis my passport, what I wanted to tell you was that our own embassy staff had received three phone calls from me and my team prior to the attack to say, “We're hearing that there will be security concerns, and we want you to know about these, and please give us an emergency number to call if something untoward should happen.” We didn't receive a single call back. Frankly, it was only after the attack happened and this made news that suddenly we heard from our embassy people. The same was not true of the colleague with whom I was travelling, who is a citizen of a different country and who made those calls to her own embassy and received responses.
To me, it's very disappointing that in a country as strategically important, and as vastly populated as this one, our own staff, frankly, approach these issues in what I would suggest to you is a much more politically correct way than they ought to. What is it that we Canadians stand for? Do we know anymore? Do we? Maybe we ought to figure that out, and then, maybe, as people who are paid by the taxpayers of Canada, we ought to represent those values proactively in other parts of the world.