Mr. Dean, I appreciate very much your insight into this.
My worry around Sudan is that while the civil war was going on, people trusted their military, the SPLA, and others to help care for them. Although foreign aid wasn't really coming into the border regions, they were in a war, so people expected that.
Once peace came after the CPA, people in the border regions expected that a lot of the aid dollars from the west would come up to their regions. That really didn't transpire very much, yet that's where a lot of the war was fought, that's where the oil fields are, and that's where a lot of the Darfur people were coming. Juba, on the other hand, because it was being enticed by southern leaders, was trying to get Canada and others to invest around Juba and build air strips, and all those kinds of things. It seems to me the west bought into that, and as a result, Juba has become this massive arrangement.
I appreciate your challenge to CIDA about farming, but it seems to me the places that are the most toxic aren't getting the development dollars. I've been to those regions and I've seen them. They still complain to this day that Juba will get another university, or whatever, and they can't even get a high school.
We have to figure out as a committee what we will do after the referendum, if it does happen, and how to invest our aid dollars. Can I get your view on that?