I want to welcome everyone to meeting number 31 of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
Today our orders of the day are the effectiveness and viability of public service partnerships between nations.
We will look at this over the next couple of meetings. We're going to start off with Madam Barrados today to talk a little bit about what I think is a unique opportunity for Canada: trying to help other countries build capacity around the world.
I'm not going to steal any of your presentation. I'm going to let you just go ahead and take your time. Then, as we do, we'll go around the room and ask some questions back and forth.
Welcome. Thank you for taking time out of your busy day to be here. I'll turn the floor over to you.