Thank you very much.
Thank you very much, Mr. Saunders.
Thank you, John. It's always a pleasure to see you back. You say that practically everything needs to be done. My first question is to you.
You could have the best civil servants, as we have here in Canada. When I came here as a parliamentarian years and years ago, I found out that they're very important. They run the country. They could take orders from any government, but they run the country, in a sense, and they do it very well. I appreciate their work a lot, and the work of the Library of Parliament. We have experts over there, and they're dedicated to our country and to Parliament.
But my question, John, is about parliamentarians. You talk about corruption. You created GOPAC. You have been the president of GOPAC and have travelled the world with GOPAC. It has helped you see. How do you see the parliamentarians in those countries? How can we help the parliamentarians?
I remember years and years ago when I went to a francophone country that had just had an election. I met the day after with the chair of the health committee--a doctor. He came to see me and asked what he was supposed to do as the chair of the committee, and what the committee should do. Sometimes we start from scratch and it is very difficult.
Can tell us how it's going in Mongolia, and some other countries, maybe in Asia? If you have a good public service but you don't have a good understanding of parliamentarians, you don't go anywhere.
My other question is for Mr. Saunders. We have Canadian mining companies over there. How do you rate their work over there with the population—not with the government, but with the population?