Thank you for your question.
The member has put her finger on a very important element of the rise of pan-Africanism—not 1970s pan-Africanism but a new pan-Africanism through the auspices of the African Union. That is why the Canadian government is paying so much attention to the African Union right now.
We have supported their joining the G20, which they have done. We have offered to support them to figure out how they will participate in the G20, which is one of those behind-the-scenes things that are very useful. We have inaugurated a high-level dialogue, as I said, which we will repeat in due time at the upper levels of the African Union Commission. We have a development policy dialogue that we are engaging in shortly—hopefully in Addis Ababa—to talk about development policy issues of common interest between the African Union Commission and the Canadian government. We have a trade policy dialogue that is ongoing and that will speak to AU observership at the WTO, as well as to supporting them in their desire to improve their abilities to work on trade policy issues across the continent, particularly around the continental free trade area. Canada has quite a lot of experience with free trade agreements and we can bring that to bear.
In terms of specific support, we are currently on our third general grant to the African Union Commission to support their plan of action and their program. There is also support that we provide to organizations that support the African Union from the outside, one of which is very key to what we were talking about regarding basic building blocks for the new Africa. The African Trade Policy Centre has been supporting the continental free trade area. As well, the Global Green Growth Institute is supporting the African Union Commission to work better on being able to access climate financing more directly.