I was legal adviser to the Ukrainian independence movement, Rukh, back between 1988 and 1992. Doesn't that sound like a long time ago?
I am strong believer in having diaspora communities support the overthrow of tyrannical governments. It can make a huge difference. I know that because they had that effect in Ukraine. In fact, I know some of the Ukrainians in Canada who made that happen. One of them was your foreign minister. The same was true here in the United States.
I strongly believe if more visas are given to Hazaras to come to Canada to resettle, even temporarily, it will have a big impact inside Afghanistan.
My major recommendation, as I said in the talk I just gave, is to greatly increase the number of visas that you specifically earmark for Hazaras from Afghanistan to come to Canada—that has not been done yet—specifically recognizing them as a religious and ethnically persecuted community, just the way the Jews were during the Holocaust.