Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Mr. MacLennan, Ms. Whiting, thank you for being with us this morning.
I would like to make a comment before I begin. You mentioned the decline of democracy around the world, but this is not exclusive to developing countries. Take, for example, Poland, Turkey and even our neighbours to the south, not far from here. I would like to come back a little bit to the point that was raised, that is, that it only affects developing countries and that, as a result, our policies would have been a failure.
Can we also say that this is a general decline and not specific to developing countries?