Yes, I understand.
What can Canada do? How can Canada implement this?
First of all, Canada should very quickly involve itself in the humanitarian cause in Sudan for strategic reasons in addition to humanitarian reasons. Sudanese Canadians have been asking for this for a long time. The situation is unlikely to get better, and that becomes a very crucial issue. This is the reason for my estimation that the U.S. has decided to move forward with the Quad.
Canada can do two things. One is to push for a humanitarian corridor as soon as possible to open up a route for aid from Chad and other routes. The second is to appoint a special envoy to Sudan who not only goes to the Arab capitals but, crucially—and I want to emphasize this here—goes to the IGAD-African Union countries that so far have not been central to the negotiations in the Quad.
The envoy is something that the AU and IGAD are calling for. Here I'm once again calling for a Sudan envoy, on the part of the Canadian government, to highlight the issue of conflict gold. This is extremely important. We can go into details, but Canada can play a very important role—