We've had very strong criticism from both President Uribe and Vice-President Santos, criticizing human rights organizations for promoting policies and colluding with terrorism and colluding with the guerrillas. In that kind of context, when you have the leading officials in the Colombian regime aggressively attacking independent human rights observers, how can you then possibly have the Colombian government reporting on itself?
The argument would be, well, no, it's the Canadian government that takes that report and does something with it. But what we saw last Thursday was that very clearly the Canadian government just rubber-stamps what it gets from the Colombian government. The terminology and the praise for the Colombian government was exactly the same on Thursday as it was on Tuesday. You might as well have had the same script.
Does that worry you, then, that what we are actually embarking on is a rubber stamp on human rights? We're actually, in a very real sense, condoning the human rights abuses that everyone around this table purports to be opposed to.