Mr. Speaker, I share that sense, and one of the things we did today was pass a unanimous consent motion. That was an important message to send. Hopefully we will see a consensus in the House that we have targeted sanctions, that we look at visa bans, that we look at what Canada can do to help resolve the situation there.
While l am on my feet, one of the things we and the government have noted is that Ambassador Bennett has been dispatched to Ukraine. He is our ambassador for religious freedom. One thing we hoped the government would put in place was an institute for democratic development. It promised to do that in the Speech from the Throne a couple of years and did not follow up. This is a great example of what could be done if we had an institute for democratic development. It is not just the monitoring of elections; that is very important, but it is also to help with democratic development in between elections.
I hope the government takes a look at that idea again, because if we had the capacity of a democratic development institute in this situation, it would have already been helping on the ground to resolve things, to show how a multi-party system works, and to provide strength to the people of Ukraine.