Thank you very much for being with us today.
The Economist magazine recently talked about the rule of law and property rights and how, as you alluded to, that made countries like those in the G-20 and like-minded countries prosper over the last couple of centuries. Of course, it also mentioned that countries that do not have rule of law and property rights are being held back; that kind of holds back people from being ambitious and maybe prospering.
I was in Poland after Poland came out of the communism stage. One of the biggest challenges was, of course, having a million Polish farmers and finding out whether they really owned their property when Poland came out of that situation. Things had to be set up. They took a lot of examples from Canada, from our Bill of Rights and our Charter of Rights and things like that.
I guess that probably two-thirds of the world's population is still without proper property rights of some sort. You alluded to some of the Arab countries being a bit of a fertile ground for helping them out. With the Internet and television, I guess they're seeing what we do in the other parts of the world. My question is, are we moving forward very much in these countries around the world? If we were doing a report card for the last 20 years, are we so-called “freeing up” these countries to have better property rights and rules of law?
My other question is, should we be doing more country to country, maybe, similar to what we did in Poland? Or should we put more pressure on the UNs of the world to go in there with a bit of a starter kit and help some of these countries and that kind of thing?