Thank you, Chair, and thank you, ministers, for being here.
Minister Paradis, we have had enormous success with our maternal, newborn and child health initiatives. In 2010 when our Prime Minister announced the $2.85 billion, we saw that leveraged, working with our partners, to something around $7.3 billion. We've now announced $3.5 billion for this next five years.
I wonder if you could talk a little bit about the partnerships that we have, such as with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and some of the other partnerships we have and what we expect to see accomplished with that money.
I'll just ask all my questions now and then I'll give you the floor.
I know you were at the World Economic Forum and there was the announcement of this new funding mechanism that's going to be handled through the World Bank. I wonder if you could give the committee some insight into what that looks like.
I have one last question for you.
My riding is home to the Association des francophones de la région de York, a group of people who want to speak French and be served in French. The group would like to know about Canada's relationship with other countries in La Francophonie.