Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't know anything about this.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The next time I'm down, possibly, yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't share that concern because what I've learned has come from workers down there. They're very proud of the organizations they have and are in. I heard no complaints from any of the workers. Whether I was talking to them one-on-one or in a group situation, I never heard any

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My exact words were that in my opinion, Cuban Canadians...a small group who are aligned with the Cuban-American National Foundation, headquartered in Miami.... Sorry, it was the point I made about Cuba being a sovereign country. I said: It has laws to protect itself against any

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I've talked to the workers down there and this is what they've told me.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think I made the analogy earlier that you can look at any country in the world, including Canada, and get the same types of responses.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I talked to the workers there, and they didn't have the concerns that you have. And I'll just say that those concerns could be probably put on any country in the world.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  They have their own rules in the constitution, as I said earlier.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  On the first question, about medicine, in 2004 when we went down, one of the 25 people had a cut and went to the hospital and got it fixed up. I've been to medical centres, hospitals, and some community-style health centres. One was for pregnant women with high-risk pregnancies.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's funny you raised the issue about somebody going to jail for a radio. On the most recent trip, I actually went out and bought some gifts for the union folks down there, and one of them was a wind-up--not battery-powered--radio, like those lights. I took a number of those too,

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I travelled to Brazil a number of years ago with the union, in 1999. There's no country in the world without problems. One thing I did notice about Cuba was the unique perspective they take toward workers. They don't lay off workers there. They may not have enough material or en