Presumably CIDA is as well. Isn't that right? What I'm suggesting to you is that Canada is not going directly to these companies. Canada is working with a respected NGO partner in every single case.
As I understand it, in Ghana, the Rio Tinto project is providing 134,000 residents of 12 communities with educational services and water and sanitation. This is broader than would have been done directly by any individual company.
In Burkina Faso, 10,000 young people in 13 communities are being trained with skills to get jobs in a partnership between Plan Canada and IAMGOLD—and Canada's money is going to Plan Canada, not directly to IAMGOLD. My understanding is that 10,000 young people being trained there is far in excess of what any private sector company would do in a project of that size. So what's the problem with partnering to expand the number of people who are being trained?