In the wake of today's ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the country's ambassador to Canada, Wael Aboulmagd, told the Canadian Press his country had just experienced a proud moment.
"The voices that we saw going to Tahrir square - no one in government or outside ever challenged the ideology, the motivation, the patriotism of those people, nor the legitimacy of those demands," he said in an interview.
However, Aboulmagd added, too much outside interference from well-meaning western democracies like Canada might not be welcome during the political turmoil that continues to rock his nation.
Nevertheless, aid might be appreciated at a later point, he said. Once the country has established itself to the point of stability, help from the west may be in the cards.
"[B]uilding the institutions of democracy requires a lot of work, and at that time every government - and not only governments, civil society all over the world - can play a role in capacity building and other forms," Aboulmagd told the Canadian Press.
