You know, Canada has taken the lead in putting maternal and newborn health, including issues of nutrition, including issues of workforce, on the table. This is our point in time to continue to be leaders.
It's one thing to pick up a ball and hold it and start a game and play the game. It's another thing to pick up a ball and start a game and then walk away from the game. This is really important. This is Canada's opportunity to shine.
The amount of feedback from the Canadian public in terms of taking up this global initiative has been profoundly, resonatingly powerful. It has rallied this nation together. It has said that we can lead the countries of the world. We're not the biggest superpower; we never will be. We need to take a lead ideologically. We need to take a lead that was handed to us in the 1960s by Pearson. Where is our 0.07%? Scandinavian countries are doing this. This is simply a matter of choice. It's not that we can't do it; it's that we're choosing not to lead. What is that all about? The stop/start leaves us.... We're not gaining a global profile here; we're gaining a global “Oh, there's Canada putting up its hand and then taking it down again and running off, and putting its hand only halfway up.”