Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for being here today. It's very important that all Canadians have the opportunity to hear about the things Canada is doing with its development dollars.
You know that we've been undertaking a study in this committee on how the private sector can be engaged with our development money to augment what we are doing in developing countries. We're doing some pilot projects right now with some of the mining interests in other countries. There are some who have said that all we're doing is augmenting their corporate social responsibility, but we know that in the work they are doing, the private sector can help make things more efficient.
You talked about making this sustainable for the long run. We have a great example in Burkina Faso. I think it was Chris Eaton who gave us a comment about what WUSC is doing there in cooperation with IAMGOLD.
I wonder if you can tell the committee a little about what's going on with these three pilot projects we've undertaken, and how they are working.