Thank you for the question. I'll keep this brief.
Canada, as my colleague Mr. Unruh noted and as others will know, has had a presence in Sudan for decades, I believe since at least 2005. In recent years, though, our presence abroad in conflict zones has been very contained and restricted. In my view, the immediate concern is to stop the suffering and to stop the violence, the killing and the sexual violence. This means increasing that presence, probably in terms of a peacekeeping operation of some sort, something where we seem to have lost our way, to a certain extent.
Roughly 30 years ago, Canada had somewhere in the range of 3,500 people deployed on peacekeeping operations. I think right now that there are about 20. I think we have maybe nine people in Sudan. My figures could be off slightly, but probably not by a lot. Peacekeeping operations really offer a unique opportunity that most other exercises do not, in bringing together groups that have great differences but are able to find common ground when it comes to peacekeeping operations. That could be a pathway here.