Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you to all of you for being here.
I have two questions I'd like to focus on. Perhaps, Senator, you could address the first one and then the second one will be for all three of you.
Canada has concluded a free trade agreement with Cameroon. I think we are doing some good things there. I know that when I was in Cameroon three years ago, they were talking about 13 billion dollars' worth of private sector money coming into Cameroon, mostly in initiatives to build hydroelectric dams for electricity. Is there an opportunity for the private sector money that's going into countries all over Africa to be incented to participate in some malaria reduction program? Obviously there's a vested interest for them because they need a healthy workforce in order to be productive. Is there some mechanism that could be established there?
My second question is for all of you. You've noted the work we're doing in maternal, newborn, and child health. One of the initiatives is to get front-line health care workers out into the most rural and remote areas and provide care for the most vulnerable people. Being proactive, is there something we can do to help increase the ability of the health care system in a country, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, to be more robust?