Thank you, Madame, for coming. It's a pleasure to have you here again.
I'll be sharing my time with my colleague, Bill Casey.
Today I'm not going to ask you questions. I'm going to leave you on the side. My question is directed to Mr. Greenhill.
Mr. Greenhill, you're in an agency that has had a lot of experience over the last forty years in Canada. I have sat in this Parliament for eight years, and I have seen three or four reports coming every two or three years from CIDA. They talk about the same thing you're talking about here--aid effectiveness, working for women...doing the same things. I've heard absolutely nothing in this report that is different from the previous reports your department has thrown at us. So I keep wondering how effective your department has been over all these years. Where is the report card that says this aid has been effective?
Let's take the example of Africa for a change. You've been pouring money into Africa, yet it is still a mess. We talk about achieving the same targeted goals. There's a demand for more money; there's a demand to reach 0.07%. If we carry on giving you money, you're going to come back here after two or three years with the same kind of report, the same kind of situation, the same kind of thing. So where is the effectiveness in what you've done over the last forty years? Why do we keep hearing about the same things?