As you mentioned, the importance of our relationships with other countries in terms of providing reciprocal consular services is really important, because it allows us to extend our reach. There are regions, for example, in the Americas, where the Government of Canada has a much larger footprint than in other countries in other parts of the world. There are other regions, for example, the South Pacific region, where our colleagues in Australia have a much more developed network and greater geographic proximity.
We have agreements in place in different jurisdictions to provide consular services to each other's citizens. I'll give you the example of the most recent case. There was a volcano erupting in Vanuatu, a very remote South Pacific island where there are, nonetheless, Canadians present. In Vanuatu, it is Australia that has a presence and provides consular services to those Canadians who need them, and they do so quickly. In other jurisdictions, we provide those services on behalf of others.
We have agreements that are in place broadly, and we also work in an emergency context, with the whole network of our like-minded partners, on a case-by-case situational basis, where there are vulnerable citizens in need from other countries and we have the ability to provide service. We do so on the basis of humanitarian grounds, irrespective of whether we have in place long-term MOUs.
In addition to the agreement with Australia, we have agreements with the State of Israel, where, for example, I believe it's in Venezuela—