Our mandate is to help the developing countries themselves deal with these types of problems. Our mandate, and this goes both ways.... Creating sound institutions, agencies, competencies in developing countries not only creates the type of enabling environment that will better attract investments. Extractor firms don't want to go into places where they just have no idea.... Let's face it; they're in there for the long haul. To go into really risky environments in which they have no guarantee of how regulations are going to be applied and there is corruption within local or national governments just takes a risky business and makes it that much more risky.
Our goal within CIDA is to help countries actually create those types of frames that will create the enabling environment that will not only attract investment and then get at poverty reduction in the end—that's our goal—but also better enable them to deal with problems, whether they be Canadian, Dutch, Norwegian, or Russian firms. The truth is that I don't think developing countries care much what the nationality is of the company. They actually want to have the tools in their hands to deal with these problems.