Yes, I do.
Thank you, Madame Lalonde.
I have in front of me a petition with a collection of over 1,000 signatures from parliamentarians around the world demanding more accountability from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. These are particularly parliamentarians in the south who want to be involved in making national decisions on what their priorities should be.
To take the example I gave of Zambia, all of the interaction took place between the Zambian ministry of finance and the representatives from the International Monetary Fund. Elected parliamentarians were not involved in that debate.
I'm just going to read a key quote from the petition:
As a result, we are calling on the Bretton Woods institutions and their primary shareholders to ensure that the democratically elected representatives of countries receiving loans and financial assistance ultimately be the real brokers of their countries' economic policies.