Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses. I really appreciated what you all had to share with us today.
I really believe that with a post-colonial Africa the boundaries as drawn for all of these nations have a big role to play in how conflict is occurring and why that conflict seems to become more and more permanent, as Monsieur Vircoulon said when talking about the DRC.
I want to talk about the relationship of the global north with Africa and the multilateral partnerships. Canada, as I'm hoping you are aware, has a Canadian ombudsperson for responsible enterprise to manage humanitarian efforts and human rights while conducting enterprise.
Perhaps I would ask each of you to briefly comment on this. What role do you think Canada specifically can play to empower African nations and to find that balance of working with them, as opposed to being just a donor state?
We will start with Monsieur Vircoulon, please.