Absolutely, and I thank the honourable member very much for the question.
I have a very good friend who was the first Rwandan to be accepted in the faculty of law at McGill. He graduated in 2011. In his last year of law school, he interned at the Supreme Court in Rwanda.
Lo and behold, about a month ago I also had the same opportunity to go back in the summer. It will mean a lot to me to be able to go back, to look at what's happening, and to contribute, because he came back with so many positive experiences, and I think we need that. As much as I owe a lot to Canada, I also owe a lot to my country of origin, despite the fact that I have not been back since the genocide happened.
Absolutely, it is important for young people to go back. There are not as many young people going back as there should be, but I think it's important to create.... The world is becoming a global village, and the more we share, the more opportunities there are for improvement.
My having been exposed to Canada completely changed my perspective abut things like diversity, like ethnicity. Right now, I would say that I am a global citizen, because it means.... I've been in Montreal for the last six years. Of course, I will not pretend and say that it's a perfect place to live, but it's much better than most of the places I've been to, and we need to share the same experience back....
I have had an opportunity to go back to Kenya. Whenever I go back, I speak about Canada. I like to share the great experiences. Hopefully these can be shared as human beings, because humanity is contagious. I think we are able to learn from one another. In the same way that Canadians can learn from Rwandans, Rwandans and Kenyans and other people can learn both ways.