Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. The Senate report has been widely discussed within the international development community. We feel largely that yes, there are problems at CIDA, but we wouldn't go so far as to identify with the recommendation in the Senate report that CIDA's responsibilities be turned over to the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Foreign Affairs committee  One of the keys is to call for more transparency in the multilateral institutions. For example, minutes of the board meetings of the World Bank are not published. We don't know what Canada's voting record on key issues is. We think that if there could be more transparency about the decision-making process inside these institutions, parliamentarians and the public could engage in a more informed debate.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To begin, I want to commend the Department of Finance for its very informative report on the operations under the Bretton Woods Act and also the staff of the Halifax Initiative for the report card that gives credit to the Department of Finance for much improved work.