Good morning, everyone.
Welcome to meeting 17 of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, as we look at Canada's international development interests and the role of the private sector.
I want to welcome Dr. Mintz. It's an honour to have you here today. I know you were here on the Hill a little while ago and filled up the parliamentary restaurant, with lots of people waiting, so we're glad we have you all to ourselves in committee for at least 40 minutes.
To all my colleagues, I'm going to try to keep things really moving today, because we have three witnesses and only 40 minutes with each, so we're going to be pretty tight with time. I'll just warn you right now that we will hold you to your time today.
Dr. Mintz, we're going to let you start off. As I said, we've been studying the role of the private sector in terms of helping Canada's international development interest, so we're looking forward to what you have to say. You have ten minutes and then we'll start with our rounds of questioning.
Dr. Mintz, I'll turn it over to you, sir.