I guess it doesn't matter, though, when you think about it. When you kill a reporter, that's not acceptable. When you kill somebody, it's not acceptable. I don't care if it's a narco-trafficker doing it or anybody else doing it, that is not acceptable. If you do a report on the drug scene in Honduras and you get killed, that is not acceptable. It's unfortunate. It's unacceptable.
I guess I look at Honduras and I say, “Okay, now, for me, as a parliamentarian here in Canada, how can I help them? What are the tools that I have? What is the leverage I have to help them out?” The easiest thing I can do is give them a better standard of living, give them a choice between two jobs—and I said this yesterday—a job in narco-trafficking, which brings all the cancers that come with that, or a job at Gildan. It may not be 100% perfect, but with a job at Gildan the guy goes home to his family. He raises a family. He's usually involved with his church. He's involved in the community, so you have two options here for these 24,000 people because if Gildan, for example—I'm using it as an example—isn't there, where do these 24,000 people work? What do they do?
That's the question I have. How do I take leverage here and try to influence to make the life of that child who is born in Honduras today better 10 years from now? I look at Colombia and I look at countries that had similar situations. I look at Medellin today versus Medellin during 1985. Look at Bogota today versus 1985. What changed that? What made that improve? Today I can walk in downtown Medellin and not worry about it, or Bogota, and I have done that. You can't do that in Honduras.
We look to trade and economic activity as tools that allowed that to happen. Is that not fair to say?