The committee is trying to compensate for the variety of ministers and the number of changes in government that we've experienced. There have been, for instance, a number of minority governments. It was the public's choice and it should be respected.
In this regard, the subject of your testimony could practically be the title of our final report. We are doing this in-depth study to try to develop a foreign policy for Canada that would be as free of partisanship as possible.
On this point, you've said that our ambassador to Washington should play a multilateral role, in other words be more involved in multilateral debates and probably interact with other ambassadors. Can you give us further detail on what you would expect from the ambassador and the embassy specifically in areas that go beyond bilateral relations?