Thank you.
For the record, there's been very little time to collaborate between Mr. Georgetti and me. I would say we share similar concerns, so we do have some similar questions, but he was not party to the questions I was going to ask, at all, before today.
I want to carry on this conversation a little bit about the role of mining companies in international development. I want to pick up on the point that it's not the job of mining companies to go into other countries to build a school, build a well, build a hospital, and then they've done their bit. Their job is absolutely to help to build the capacity so that the governments there can run hospitals, can run schools, and can develop their infrastructure. That can be assisted by corporations, and this is where I do see a role for mining companies in international development in paying a fair share of taxation and royalties, internationally and nationally, because that's what provides the infrastructure to support our civil society.
At the same time as doing that, I'm also hearing a lot about—I heard through Mr. Gratton here—the role CIDA could play in partnership, because CIDA has skill sets and some experience in international development. If the mining companies need some sessions, some workshops on how to do that, I think that would be a great role for CIDA to play, to put on workshops and to train personnel on how to do long-term systemic change-building and how to make for a strong civil society overseas.
I really want to get back to what we know or what I read about or what I have seen happening overseas with some of our mining companies and also the kind of role they do play there. So I am going to go back to Mr. Georgetti again to ask him this.
Do you have any recent examples of very egregious reports from some of the developing countries about the role of the mining companies there, whether it comes to the environment or whether it comes to labour practices or whether it just comes to supporting civil society?