If I were a parliamentarian now in Sri Lanka, there's not be much that can happen in terms of the big picture.
But I did make recommendations about where Canada could engage with the Northern Provincial Council and with the Tamil National Alliance. I would be thinking about potentially engaging, as parliamentarians, with some of these politicians in the north who are trying to establish a local government of sorts. It has long been the aspiration of the people there to have their own police force and their own government in the areas where they form a majority. It's going to be a long hard slog to do it, and they're not going to get much support from their government.
Those are areas where parliamentarians can engage legitimately to provide much needed advice and support, but also potentially provide introductions to international assistance to help these politicians who are emerging in the north engage with and receive the help and support of the international community. That would be one area. I know it's not a big picture one, but our business interests in the country aren't sufficient to give Canada economic leverage.
As to my answer to the other question, when the European Union removed some trade preferences, even that didn't help much with Sri Lanka.
In Sri Lanka, the government is really not that worried about the economic steps that we might take; they can offset those. They're worried about prestige: it's the things that deny them visits, that deny them access to the symbols they think they are entitled to as a democratically elected government. Those are the things they're sensitive to.