Foreign Affairs committee  I am busy with the two different portfolios. I'll touch on the media piece that you mentioned, because that is a very important piece. I think the last time I was in front of the committee, I spoke about the support we were providing to the media. As you say, it is a very import

Foreign Affairs committee  I can speak at a pretty high level. I know it. I visited that project and some of the work that they were doing. It started out as a small Canadian-promoted project that used frameworks and systems and expertise from the Government of Alberta. That project dealing with, as you s

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll be more coherent with my response this time. In terms of supporting the national bank of Ukraine and the national anti-corruption bureau, we're working to improve transparency. I think transparency and accountability are the key pieces that are going to attack the issue of

Foreign Affairs committee  Thanks for the question. I'll go to my notes, because I have some specific pieces to respond to that question. In the general sense, all of our programming has a corruption component within it. The technical assistance Canada is providing and the IMF assistance that's being pro

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members. I'm pleased to provide you with an overview of Canada's development response to Ukraine. Last year's revolution was about Ukrainians' desire to live in a prosperous, democratic, independent European country. While there is a long way

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. As you mentioned, the media is very important in terms of advancing democracy. We have projects under way that we're looking to advance soon. We're also working with the journalists, but first in the immediate future is the protection of journalists. They've been targeted b

Foreign Affairs committee  A positive response from?

Foreign Affairs committee  As for the journalists themselves, I was there in November and I had a round table with a number of journalists, and that was key at the time, the protection of journalism. As I was saying, one of their top concerns was the cyberattacks they were experiencing. They were definitel

Foreign Affairs committee  That I can't speak to. I could get back to you.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm going to pass that to Tamara, my colleague, whose program is responsible for elections monitoring.

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. I think to answer your key question, I'll turn to Matt. I'll just say that we're working with the IMF right now in terms of technical assistance and readying the reforms to prepare for an IMF-type program should that be coming. I'll turn to Matt who can speak to the econo

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair and honourable members, thank you for the opportunity to discuss Canada’s development assistance program and its role in responding to Ukraine’s current situation. Through Canada’s development assistance program, we continue, as we have done for two decades, to support