We arrived in Ottawa just this morning, so I'm going to be meeting with the government tomorrow about this. All I can say from a predictive standpoint is that we're now in a completely different world, where nobody is trying to make nice with the Russians. Sanctions have already been imposed, so as for the idea of a leap of faith to impose sanctions and a leap of faith that we're worried about upsetting Russia, neither of them are big leaps of faith now.
I was sort of in the wilderness for the last four years. A lot of people were saying that maybe this Magnitsky case was just some obscure case, an extreme example. Now, all of a sudden, every government is interested in my opinions about who to sanction, and every news station is interested about whether the sanction policies are appropriate or should be strengthened.
I'm now in the mainstream as far as my thoughts about sanctions go, so I'm hoping that since the world has changed, we can actually use this tool properly. As I've said, this is sort of the iPad technology. We used to be on typewriters, but now we have an iPad as far as fighting human rights abuse goes.
As for the idea of going after these people's money, we're not just talking about going after heads of state or senior government officials. In the case of Magnitsky, we're talking about mid-level people who won't be able to travel, who can't use their Visa card anymore. Then the question is, do they take the order to do something bad if they know they're going to be held personally accountable and they won't be able to travel and use their money, and their government can't protect them from that?