Thank you, Minister, for being here today, and to your officials and your entire department for the excellent work you are doing to help Canada to give back to the rest of the world. It's actually an important obligation for us as a G7 nation. We need to give back to the world, and I want to sincerely thank you and your team for doing that.
I know you've been quite active in this current Parliament, in the last year or so, visiting different parts of the world to ensure that our development assistance has been well delivered. Before I get into questions, I do want to salute you for the work you've done in Bangladesh; to deal with refugee education in Pakistan; and to address climate change, when you visited the Philippines and Senegal—again to ensure that we are giving back to the world. That's extremely important work.
You touched upon climate change. Your visit to Pakistan also addressed the issue of climate change. Can you share with us and help us understand how climate change will become an increasingly important issue? How will it impact communities and millions of people in the world, in the global south? What we are doing to mitigate climate change and help people adapt to it?