My personal opinion, since you're asking for it, is that CIDA's mandate is first of all a humanitarian one. I believe it's our duty to provide aid to disadvantaged populations living in situations of distress, but I also think we must help countries that want to develop. We must work with them. We must ensure that the populations themselves choose to take charge of their lives. If democracy is established in a country, I believe we must work with it and comfort the people with the idea that the development of their country depends on democracy and good governance.
Having said that, I would remind you that, in the throne speech, we talked about the effectiveness of aid. I think that concept is extremely important. I believe that the Canadian population, in its soul and conscience, is extremely generous, but that it wants to know whether the aid it provides does something. It wants to know the results of that aid. I'm convinced we must take steps in that area as well.