Mr. Bergeron, I like this bill because it collects the tools that I saw could have been extremely useful in the situation I found myself in in Mali and Niger 15 years ago. All of the elements of this bill would have applied to that situation, that is, the Government of Mali could well have been subject to the threat of sanctions of some form or another. Individuals certainly could have been encouraged to be co-operative by paying them and possibly could have been encouraged to be helpful knowing that they might be received in Canada. All of those things I consider to be very useful tools.
I'm not a legislative expert and I didn't mean to suggest that those were the only tools. I certainly did mean to suggest that there were other tools that I didn't think government should talk about, and I still believe that strongly.
I don't look at this bill as being exclusive. I don't look at this bill as suggesting in any way that that's it; that's enough. It's not. Other things are needed.