Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Professor Petrasek.
I'm filling in for Irwin Cotler, but only in the physical sense. To be sure, there's absolutely no way that in terms of his experience on matters of international human rights I would be able to fill in.
You have written that the decision of Canada's Prime Minister to not attend the heads of Commonwealth meeting changed the way other leaders engaged. You also talked here about it being a PR disaster for the Government of Sri Lanka. Are there similar things or other things our Prime Minister or our country can be doing that will have a similar impact in terms of changing the way others engage with Sri Lanka?
I know that you talked about the UN Human Rights Council. It seems to me that this action by our Prime Minister in this case was, if you will, symbolic. It didn't necessarily involve other countries. Are there other things along these lines that we could do and that would have the same impact?