I would add to that, in agreement with Barbara, saying obviously the Colombian government hasn't made a larger effort to take any...and not just our recommendations but other recommendations of international organizations that have been on the ground in Colombia, to make any concrete changes toward the concerns that are raised.
Outside of that, the question around whether or not the Canadian government should be pushing forward during an electoral process I think certainly is important to consider. At the same time, I go back to the case of the independent human rights impact assessment.
I've read through most of the testimony to this committee to date on the assessment, and I haven't heard anybody say they think it's a really fantastic amendment and therefore it's unnecessary to do the human rights impact assessment report. I do wonder why the committee is seeing this as taking the place of the human rights impact assessment report, when really that is an outstanding piece of important investigation that the committee should be presenting to the government so that people can fully understand what's happening on the ground.
In closing, I want to quickly add to the question around the United States being able to impact the human rights situation. I think we've seen Plan Colombia to date.... I'm not sure how familiar everyone is with Plan Colombia, but we certainly haven't seen a decrease in the drug trade. We haven't seen a decrease in the violence.
The numbers that Barbara outlined in her presentation clearly point to a dramatic increase, in a lot of cases, in killings and in violence in communities. So the amount of money that the United States has put into Plan Colombia has clearly not had an impact on making people's lives better in Colombia.