Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be, at least for today, back on this committee. When I was on this committee in 2019 we did a study on democracy and Canada's promotion of democracy around the world. There was a consensus report of all parties, at that time, that spoke about the need for Canada to really have a clearinghouse for all of the expertise that we have on democracy. We know that Canadians are all over the world, in intergovernmental institutions and NGOs, doing incredible work. They are trusted to do work on pluralistic and inclusive democratic governance, work on federalism and work on parliamentary strengthening.
To have an institute, which you've referred to and some of my colleagues have asked about, that would provide that kind of ecosystem, that kind of clearinghouse for expertise, perhaps even being able to support the NGOs and the ecosystem of NGOs in this field, could I just ask where that is at, where that stands? How do you see that moving ahead?