Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Mr. Dade. It has certainly been very informative, from my own perspective. The passion you have, the knowledge you have, and the experience you have certainly make me imagine a scenario where it's not an either/or prospect of having public funds for development projects or working with the private sector in the broadest sense of the term.
What struck me in your opening comments is we tend to think about company X building a school near project Y as private sector work in development, but if you look at it much more broadly, there is a whole host of possibilities that aren't necessarily contradictory with other development objectives, or don't necessarily get substituted for other development objectives.
I want to pick up on a question Ms. Brown had. The diaspora involvement is an interesting way to view private sector participation in development. You mentioned the example of the Indian diaspora in California, and you ran out of time. I want to give you a chance to pick up on that.
In Canada we don't have research or accurate information on these remittances and on the level or the precise nature of them. What would you suggest the government or some other group could do? How would we get better information? Who typically funds this kind of research? How would we get this information? It certainly appears to be very valuable.
I found your example of the Haitian community in Miami or Brooklyn or even Montreal very interesting. Are there other examples in Canada, looking at the Canadian context, where diaspora communities might, in your view, be good partners for development and where Canada, the Government of Canada, has development priorities? In other words, is there a match with an effective diaspora community? The Haitian one in Quebec certainly is an obvious one, but are there others that come to mind specifically with which the government or CIDA or other private sector developers could work in terms of trying to leverage some of that participation?