Okay. I have a couple of issues.
First of all, when we were in Colombia we met with the International Labour Organization. I got a bit of a mixed feeling from them. They certainly recognized the need to have an office there. They certainly recognized the long history of abuses that have occurred in Colombia. At the same time, they had a very good rapport with Uribe's government. They have weekly meetings with the Minister of Social Protection. They had a list of issues that they talked about.
These are the quick facts that they gave us. Trade union members have increased in Colombia in recent years. The total budget for the union protection program has grown 300% since 2002. I'm not saying that's enough, but that's what the International Labour Organization is saying. There have been 1,246 teachers relocated for safety reasons. They're tracking all of this stuff. They're keeping an eye on it.
There's a program to protect labour unionists in Colombia today. Since that program has been instigated, none of the labour unionists in the program have been murdered—there are still labour unionists being murdered, but none in that program have been murdered.
Sitting around this table, we can't imagine 200 labour unionists being killed in a year. None of us can. However, that number went from 200 to 26 in 2007—and you've already mentioned that it has gone up again this year.
I mention those things because here's a country that's headed in the right direction, and I really question what happens if we say to them now that all the work they've done is for nothing because it's not enough yet.
It isn't enough yet, but I don't know if we reward that or penalize it and how they accept it themselves.
Does somebody want to comment on that? It's a tough issue.