Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all of our presenters today. This has been fascinating and very interesting for me.
I did have a number of questions, and I know I won't be able to get through all of them in the time I'm allotted.
I want to follow up on something that my colleague Mr. Chong brought forward. He talked about how unrealistic it is to get to that point of 7% and about the historic low spot we find ourselves in at the moment with our overseas development or official development assistance. Right now the international development sector is asking for 1% of COVID spending that is happening in Canada to be committed to our overseas efforts.
I'm wondering if Dr. Percival could talk about the importance of ensuring that we have a substantive contribution and commitment and that our contribution is not just words, that it's not just this verbal ambition, but that it's an actual reality. I'd like her to speak to that and also maybe what the consequences for Canada and for the world would be if we're not able to have an ambition that is higher than where we currently are.