Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair.

Foreign Affairs committee  Okay.

Foreign Affairs committee  As I said, in Africa we treasure life. Pregnancy is a blessing. What we need to do is offer a solution in any crisis situation—

Foreign Affairs committee  When a woman's life is at risk, it is, medically speaking, allowed to take the life of the baby in the womb. That's medically speaking, but how many times is that needed? It's on very rare occasions. Essentially—

Foreign Affairs committee  I would like to please go back to what you said. Abortion due to medical reasons to save the life of a mother is a rare situation. It's called for about 0.05% of the time. Usually, most of the time we're talking about abortion for social reasons and not to save the life of the mother.

Foreign Affairs committee  Can you hear me?

Foreign Affairs committee  Okay, thank you very much.

Foreign Affairs committee  I understand that you can hear me properly.

Foreign Affairs committee  Can you hear me now?

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm sorry. Is that for me?

Foreign Affairs committee  No, I'm sorry. I'm not aware of the Muskoka initiative. What I do know is that we have a lot of foreign donors working in Nigeria, and there's a big push for making abortion legal in the country. The maternal and infant death rate is on the increase, and approximately 16 million Nigerian children are out of school.

Foreign Affairs committee  I think one of the key areas that we'd really be interested in is nutrition. If 60% of childhood diseases and death are attributed to malnutrition, that should be something of concern to us. As I said, about 66% of our population live in multidimensional poverty—

Foreign Affairs committee  —and that means that mostly women are affected. This poverty affects their health. It affects their education. It affects—

Foreign Affairs committee  Is this okay?

Foreign Affairs committee  Okay. Can you hear me better now?