Honourable member, thank you for this question.
I look at it in two ways.
First, with the current ecosystem and the limited resources, I think Canada has the moral courage and it has to take that step. Canada should not be that conservative with its values, principles and morals. This is the time for Canada to lead.
I'm talking about this because the people who first lost everything were the human rights defenders in Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Kenya, the places where we work right now. These are the good people of those countries. These are the cream of society, honourable member. As you know, these people stand up to their governments. They wanted to work for ArtLords, Equitas or the Government of Canada, and the moment the funding cuts came in, the first people who lost jobs were not people sitting in Montreal or B.C or Ottawa. The people in Nairobi, Kabul and Tunis lost their jobs. It's very important that we have a place, a system, a mechanism, that can sustain the supports for those people. These supports are not for millions of dollars.
The second thing is compliance versus impact. We are a national organization with donors. Especially, the Government of Canada is stressing compliance. It's very important, but for a small organization in Nepal or Sri Lanka, it's very difficult to get those resources, the funding and those applications. I think we have to find a way. The system is broken right now. This is the time for all of us to rethink a dignified way of seeing and respecting all those human rights defenders in all those places, and Canada can do that.