What you just said about supporting countries is what I just heard in a speech by former Governor General Michaëlle Jean about Haiti. I visited Haiti with a multi-party delegation and saw just how much money is being poured in and how little long-term resiliency and self-responsibility is really occurring. Her key comment is that this aid has to be partnering directly with the company, walking side by side down this pathway with the country, with the national government, and not about private sector investments as the leading point.
I'd like to ask Mr. Heaps, when you're talking about financing alternative energy—under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change one of the six or seven envelopes or chapters was exactly about that—how do we finance these countries in their alternative and clean energy and efficiency, so they can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address that upfront cost of new types of energy, especially when fossil fuels are so heavily subsidized in so many countries, including Canada?
Are you suggesting that because Canada has pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol this could be something that we're trying to go it alone through CIDA as a model for helping finance this infrastructure and clean energy? If that's what you're suggesting, can you comment on whether that's effective compared with working on this in partnership with the international community through a protocol like the Kyoto Protocol?