Thank you, Chair.
You have quite a grasp of development of all different sectors, especially Africa. I told the previous witness that The Economist has this whole thing about Africa rising, and it's exciting. If we look at some of the countries, it's going to be hard, but what's going on is exciting for the majority of countries.
What happened in Tunisia was that this vegetable seller was one of those 40% of Africans who just wanted to get into business and encountered red tape and too much arm-twisting. There are a lot of young people and they just want to go. How does Canada play a role? You have some really good ideas here, especially dealing with the diaspora and this development finance system. And how can we build from that?
They reality is, still in that article, that the average person is getting $2 a day. We can show leadership. I remember doing projects in Central America, and I was paying $5 a day but everybody else was paying $3 a day. People were getting mad at me for paying $5 a day, but the next thing you knew, everybody was getting paid $5 a day. Sometimes, as Canadian companies, we have to say let's not be the bottom payer here when we're having all this investment. That should be a role we're playing as Canadians: let's be the highest payers in these places, because it will bring up the whole scale.
I'll go back to the development finance systems, where you're saying we're lacking at CIDA. I think sometimes governments are kind of nervous, because all of a sudden there's one project that didn't work and all the media and the opposition are all screaming bloody murder. That's the way it works. Sometimes we as governments are scared and say let's not go there because somebody might fail or something might happen. What do you think about that development finance system dealing with the diaspora, where there are pools of money, where the government plays a role and it plays a role? You said that pool of money is floating around there, so can you explain a little bit more how that mechanism would be set up?