There are a couple of things.
Yes, working with the private sector doesn't necessarily mean working with large multinational corporations. It can mean working with small and medium-size enterprises. It can mean working with co-ops, mutual associations, caisses populaires. That kind of private sector enterprise has deep roots in many parts of this country. Coming from Saskatchewan, I recognize the importance of the co-op movement.
To go back to the previous question from the government side, I think it is largely a question of institutions and governance. It's one thing to allow a mining company into a place, but what happens to the revenue? Are there good financial controls in place in the authority collecting the revenue? Are there regular audits? Is there public scrutiny, through the media, of the accounts? Those sorts of things.
The record of resource-based development is actually a lot less optimistic, sir, than you might think. There's a large amount of literature on a thing called the resource curse. You get too much wealth too fast, and you don't have good ways of spending it, and the money gets stolen or wasted. That's a story we've seen many times before.
I think it's important to do the homework of building institutions and building governance structures in places like South Sudan and elsewhere, so that there's a fighting chance that, whatever revenue comes in, whether it's from mining or anything else, will have a chance of being used well.
As we promote the private sector, big, middle, large, for-profit, cooperative, or whatever, we must also bear in mind those same sorts of lessons. In fact, I would suggest that small-scale agriculture is a very viable way forward for South Sudan, in large part because it creates a lot more jobs than mining ever will.