Mr. Chair, it is important to correct the record in terms of what my Bloc colleague said. He can review the Hansard for at least my statements, going back to three parliaments ago. I was very clear about wanting to see and expressing hope for an end to the Iranian regime, expressing hope that the various protest movements that we have seen over the years would succeed in toppling the regime, giving the Iranian people a government that is responsive, democratic, free and pluralistic; indeed, giving them the government that they deserve.
What has been clear over the years is that these protest movements have been met with escalating brutality. At that point, the only alternatives were intervention or the complete subjugation of the people in a military dictatorship, persistent—