I won't take six minutes and 30 seconds for the introduction, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Ms. Keenan, for being here. Thank you for your comments, which I think are instructive in a number of areas.
Perhaps I could pick up on some questions that my colleague Mr. Saganash opened up with. He asked you whether, in your view, there were any public-private partnerships around public money going to companies in the extractive sector. I think you asked for precision, and he agreed that was the case. You couldn't think of a circumstance where those investments would be a valid use of taxpayers' money, and you used a very compelling example of where it can go off track badly.
What about other sectors? You're right, we have tended to focus on a partnership in the extractive sector, but I'm thinking of some large multinational agrifood companies. McCain Foods from New Brunswick, for example, has a number of initiatives in developing countries around growing potatoes. Can you see other sectors of the economy where...?
You're going to tell me, lawyer that you are, that it will depend on the project, the terms of reference, the objectives, and so on, but as a general idea, I think the extractive sector is more complicated than perhaps other sectors where there may be an opportunity for a less complicated or polarizing partnership in terms of its local impact. Can you think of other areas of the economy or in developing countries where it might be easier to structure something that would have some merit, at least on the face of it?