Thank you, Chair.
We're thrilled to have you here. It's nice to see some familiar faces here.
Ms. Demerse, I have a question for you. I'm very much aware of maternal and child health, and what we're trying to do in Muskoka about focusing on that as an issue is a good thing for Canada to take on.
In my own particular work in Africa, I have seen work that's been built upon for years suddenly taken over by a number of refugees, or IDPs, as a result of climate change. They suddenly swamped into an area and basically undid work that has been building up for a decade.
I know that you're from Pembina, but I would be interested in your view as we seek to work with other G-8 partners to build a more harmonized approach towards child and maternal health. I've also seen that in a lot of the travelling that a lot of these IDPs or refugees have had to do, it's often been the woman who has perished in the plight of the journey. I wondered if you have a view on that.
I'm worried that we have not established a clear link between climate change and the millennium development goals. I think we treat them as two separate things and we look at aid as one thing. We push out billions to help with that; it's not sufficient, but we still push it out that way. We don't see the climate change part of it at all. I wonder if you could just clarify that a bit for me and help me to understand how you would see environmental refugees or IDPs as impacting child and maternal health.