I think CIDA can play a major role and already does.
It would be helpful for CIDA to document its successes in the field, because there's not enough documentation of why things work in the field and why they don't, which could then be made available to the private companies that are in the same geographic territory. In addition to that, CIDA could provide the meeting and the co-lead, if you will.
I'm a co-author on a book called Corporate Integrity: A Toolkit for Managing Beyond Compliance. The first author is Donna Kennedy-Glans, former vice-president international for Nexen. She went all over the world. The key aspect we found is that corporations have different levels of what they would call ethics or corporate responsibility. Some manage only with the compliance level, just the rules, and that's level five. We actually go to ten levels. So one of the things that CIDA could do is to try to get the corporations to move to a higher level of understanding of what corporate responsibility is all about.
It's not just about following the rules, but at the end of the day we want corporations to spend their money wisely so that there's sustainable development, and it's not just the money and product that's coming out of a country, but what's left behind. The key aspect for that would be for CIDA to try to find someone like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet in Canada to also be a co-lead in this, because they are at level ten in their levels of integrity.
So there's a lot of work there for CIDA to do, and it's all possible, in my opinion.