I will be, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Mr. Kingsley and Ms. Davidson.
Mr. Kingsley, first of all, I appreciate your presentation. I was certainly struck by the comment you made near the end about coherent and well-considered approaches.
The issue of top-down democracy is a failure, in my view, and therefore capacity building at the village level is absolutely critical. Had we been in Cambodia in the long haul, as an example, where we were involved with the communal elections in the early nineties, we might not be in the situation today where we have basically co-opted an opposition that is now essentially one-party rule, culminating in the removal of Prince Norodom Sihanouk's son, by no longer having him head of Funcinpec. They've even put his estranged wife in the cabinet now as a punishment.
I guess the question I have for you is, what can Elections Canada do in terms of assisting more at the village level? You mentioned local elections, for example, in Haiti. I don't remember from my days as president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities whether you have teamed up with them recently to do any work using FCM's expertise on local elections. To me that is the most important thing in capacity building, to strengthen democracies, so that this will work at other levels as we move forward.