I don't know. I think our most effective contribution would not be troops; it would likely be training, it would likely be cash, it would likely be aid.
It is entirely possible that if piracy continues the way it is going from Somalia-based organizations--or “disorganizations”, as we might call them--there will be some demand for an end to this. It could conceivably turn into a NATO operation, in which case we might very well be part of that.
Given our past experience in Somalia, given the past UN and U.S. experiences in Somalia, that's something we should be very careful in dealing with. It's complicated by the fact that there is now a very large Somalian diaspora in Canada, which seems to me to be divided in many ways. So anything we do is going to run into support and opposition from Somali Canadians. So it's a complicated issue.
The test for us has to be what serves our national interest best, and can our forces play a useful role? I don't think we want to be a situation where idealism, altruism, is necessarily the driving force for us. It must be a question of whether it serves our interests. Is it something our forces can do?
Let's be a little hard-headed as we approach these problems.