Mr. Chairman, thank you.
Thank you, gentlemen, for coming.
Mr. Deveaux, congratulations on your new assignment in Vietnam. It's an area I know quite well.
I'm interested in asking about this idea of a central structure, and you mentioned the national endowment in the U.S. What do you think have been the constraints in terms of us not establishing something of that nature?
Secondly, our approaches tended to be very scattered. For example, in Vietnam, through CIDA, we have obviously worked on judicial issues, as an example, human rights issues, but never a long enough consistent approach, often top down rather than bottom up.
We heard from the Federation of Mayors and Municipalities, which indicated, through their international centre for local government, a proposal for $15 million to CIDA to look at issues of governance at the local level, the development of laws at the local level. Maybe you could comment on that kind of approach rather than this top down.