Thank you, Chair, and thanks to the witnesses, welcome to the committee.
In a September 2022 paper, the Africa Study Group argued that Canada's engagement with Africa should be informed by two principles: that Canada needs Africa as much as Africa needs Canada, and that Canada should move away from donor-recipient models to one based on relationships between and among equal partners.
The question is, what exactly is Canada's strategy for Africa, and whether we agree that we should move to a different model if the model we have right now is not working as we wish it to be?