—I come back to your parliamentary association. I think that's the perfect place. It is where members of Parliament from both countries can sit down, look one another in the eye, and say, “Look, we have real problems. I'm a Canadian politician. My people are saying to me, 'What is it you guys are doing over there? Why are you doing this?'” You can look them in the eye and have genuine conversations. That's where parliamentary diplomacy can be very valuable to a government that often can't say that directly. Ambassadors wouldn't say it directly, but parliamentarians could say it.
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