National Defence committee  Sorry that my answers are a bit long.

National Defence committee  I watched 800,000 being slaughtered and wasn't able to do a damn thing—

National Defence committee  —because I was a chapter VI and we were there to observe and assist people who wanted peace. When they decided they didn't want peace anymore or peace hadn't come about to a level that can permit it to actually evolve, then you had to go to chapter VII. Chapter VII means that you

National Defence committee  They are major cuts, but this is not the first time we have seen the Americans operate this way with the United Nations. For a long time, we have seen major powers use the United Nations as a scapegoat when it suits them, or hide behind the UN, saying that if the UN cannot take a

National Defence committee  I will just say a few words and then give the floor to Ms. Whitman. As I said in my opening speech, we have to remember that protecting civilians is something relatively new. It was not part of peacekeeping in terms of UN Charter chapter VII missions and civil wars. The peaceke

National Defence committee  Now, the essence is the protection of civilians because we're into civil wars. We are into civil conflicts. The civilians are the prize as much as they are the victims. As such, they are a central point of all the operational considerations. They are a core element in these confl

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. If you offer the floor to a retired general who was also an apprentice politician in the Senate for 10 years, you may risk having a problem of maintaining good order and discipline in timing. However, because brevity is not

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Grassroots build it. Build the nature of it. With journalism, it's the same thing. Some people were saying we should stop helping journalists in certain countries because we know we teach them the right way but they're getting arrested and they're getting killed, and so on. The

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We don't even come close to achieving or overstepping the bounds of our potential. We're still shooting well below our potential and what the developing countries expect of us, particularly in Africa.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  When you have imploding nations that are trying to pull themselves out of conflict and get into a reconstituting nation, I am not of the ilk that the first thing you want to do is have democratic elections. What it does is tear everybody apart. There's no consensus there. Everybo

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My short answer is that I really don't believe that we take these conflicts and these frictions at the level of seriousness that they are. These are human beings like us, and they're being destroyed and abused by the hundreds of thousands and by the millions. We're seeing it. The

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sorry for the long answer.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I hope your time is half an hour.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In 2005, I was Prime Minister Martin's lead into Darfur, and Senator Jaffer was with me. There was something called a comprehensive peace agreement between Sudan and Darfur that was trying to solve that problem. What we discovered in the peace agreement was that there was no ment

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Your researchers are doing lovely work. We monitor that, as you do, of course, because of our research work and the fieldwork. The first thing is that, as you alluded to and the article explains, there's no such thing as a volunteer child soldier. In this country, people volunte