Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As I said earlier, with more strategically targeted development assistance, as a byproduct of our supporting revenue- or resource-rich states, we also want to help Canadian investors in mining. I think it's important that we think about the win/win. In other words, we need to ensure that the host government is in a position to mobilize resources that are domestically more effective. Clearly with former CIDA, helping a government develop the capacity to do so was a very positive step, and I would hope that in addition to the Prime Minister's announcement, we would think strategically about how we could best do that.
The downside risk—and we're seeing this with the rise in resource nationalism—is that you have governments now on both sides of the political spectrum, not only in Africa but also in Latin America, that are increasingly renegotiating revenue-sharing agreements. You've got retroactive liability suits being filed. You've got partial nationalizations taking place. You've got changes in fiscal and royalty payments taking place. Those are not good things necessarily.
As I said earlier, if they feel that a particular company is from a country where they're not applying the same standards, then the company might become a target. There's that downside risk as well. Canadian companies could become a target. I think it's important to—