I have one minute left, so I'll go to Mr. Hodgson.
I appreciate your testimony because you raised the question of whether or not signing this agreement would be tacit support for human rights violations. You work with studies and reports.
I want to raise two issues that came up when we were in Colombia. First off, the Colombia government changed the definition of “unemployment” so that essentially anyone working eight days a year was considered employed. In that way they lowered the unemployment rate.
I am wondering if you think that is a credible way of dealing with economic matters. You simply change the definition.
Second, we heard testimony from the president himself that essentially there were no paramilitaries in Colombia because they changed the definition: a “paramilitary” was now a “criminal”. So according to CINEP, the fact that there are thousands of paramilitaries still in place in Colombia was eliminated by the stroke of a pen, by simply changing that definition from paramilitaries to criminals.
Do you think that's a credible way of dealing with these kinds of issues, and would you sign your name to a report where you simply changed the definitions of things in an effort to make things look better?