Thank you for the question. I would say it's a question that's at the centre of our daily work.
I think one thing we have to understand is that these problems did not start with Daesh. They were certainly made much worse under Daesh, but the persecution of minorities has been ongoing, certainly in Iraq, for years, including under the regime of Saddam Hussein. So I think we have to be realistic in our expectations, which does not mean idle. The three-year strategy that has been adopted for the region is a positive step, because it is multi-year. We have to recognize that defeating Daesh is not the end of this. It's the beginning of another phase that will be just as complex and difficult as the one we're going through. That's the first step.
We have tools at our disposal such as our development programming, our stabilization and security programming. There's much we can do in the area of governance, helping Iraq. Canada has an interesting model to offer, because we're a federal country, and when dealing with diversity, it's a model that is often viewed as interesting. Especially when communities have a history of violence and discrimination, sometimes decentralization helps a little bit. Certainly, we already have programming in that area through our development funding, and we're looking at expanding on that programming in the context of the three-year strategy I mentioned.