Thank you, and I want to thank the witnesses for their testimony.
We realize that in Colombia there have been four decades of armed conflict, as was mentioned before. The civil war was quite brutal, and I believe there was some indication from Mr. Neve that there's been some improvement, at least within the last ten years. Maybe you can clarify the situation ten or fifteen years ago compared to what it is today. That is one question I'd like to ask.
The second question is in relation to the indigenous people and the terrible situation they face in Colombia. Is it not also true that a negative report about the rights of indigenous people could be written on just about every country in the Americas, including Canada and the U.S.? Historically and even now, Canada has an appalling history in dealing with the indigenous population, so can one not say that we could actually have a negative report about almost every country in the Americas in relation to indigenous peoples and indigenous rights?