Mr. Chair, I believe the question illustrates a number of the multi-faceted impacts and the ways that it is extremely important to prevent and to act before things are at a crisis level.
In fact, Canada's overall bilateral assistance program for Pakistan, which has been in place for many years, aims to do just that, so thank you for the opportunity to highlight that the continuing challenges were there before the floods, and they are exacerbated by the floods, but they will continue to be a challenge.
Canada, in fact, does have specific bilateral assistance to address things like the challenge of polio. That is one program we support with financial assistance.
We recognize the particular impact of this crisis and some of the ongoing challenges associated with the development profile of Pakistan. We do recognize it has a higher impact on women, and there are multi-faceted approaches that are used in order to address those, including through the Canada fund for local initiatives—