It's true.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to all of you for being here today. It's a very interesting conversation.
I would like to follow up, Dr. Evans, on what you've just said. We heard from the first panel and now we're hearing from this panel that China is playing an important role in sub-Saharan Africa and in developing countries. This is changing that discussion around democracy, the rule of law and what that all means.
As Canada has limited resources—more limited than certainly I would like to see, but limited regardless—and the Indo-Pacific strategy is committing more of those resources to the Indo-Pacific region and developing those relationships, you can see that there would be a problem. Because, of course, of these limited resources, we're pulling resources out of other areas to invest in the Indo-Pacific strategy, which may make sense and which may be a good idea, but that leaves us not investing in sub-Saharan Africa and leaving the continent in some ways—diplomatically, peacekeeping-wise, development-wise—wide open to messages coming from China or from even more malevolent players like the Wagner Group.
How do we balance that? How do we balance our need for that? That's just looking at sub-Saharan Africa. We're not even talking about multilateral institutions, the Middle East or some of these other areas of focus. What do we do?