Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm the lead for our party for international development, and I was very struck by your report 4, which looks at the dissonance between the words the government uses around empowering women and gender internationally and the reality of what's happening. We know the Liberals love to talk about gender in international development. Your report shows that they're not measuring results: 50 out of 60 projects that you looked at didn't have complete data. Only 35 of those 60 projects actually measured policy indicators, and the vast majority of those policy indicators actually had nothing to do with results. Two out of three of the spending commitments were not met. Those are spending commitments, not results commitments; those are simply spending commitments. So, there's a massive gap between the rhetoric on gender and the reality in terms of what is not being measured and what is not being achieved. I think, sadly, this underlines that the government is trying to push a particular message to a domestic audience about what it does and doesn't care about, yet it can't be bothered to consistently track the data.
I want to ask you to share a bit more about the challenges you had in accessing this data. What kinds of challenges did you experience in getting access to the data that the government did have, and how do you explain the fact that in so many cases there's no data being gathered around outcomes whatsoever?