Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to welcome all the witnesses appearing before the committee today.
My first question draws on Mr. Fryars' opening remarks.
If my notes are correct, you said you have helped 500 million people in 70 countries. It is rather difficult to align these 70 countries with Canada's 25 countries of focus. It is clearly a much larger problem. You also said something I am very interested in, namely, that we should perhaps take a approach based on the targeted problems rather than targeted countries. For your part, Ms. Riseboro, you talked about the need for flexibility in the determinants.
My question is for the three witnesses.
Shouldn't we review our international aid? Two avenues are available to us right now, and they are not mutually exclusive. We could increase the amount of international aid, meaning that 90% of our aid would continue to go to the 25 countries of focus. The other avenue, since we cannot indirectly break off our relations, is to look to the medium term and move to a more thematic approach or an approach based on countries of focus.