For example, don't you see the fact that the government has slashed its international aid as a problem for certain programs, which may have had or will no longer have a concrete impact in the region we are discussing today?
Cuts to international aid are not limited to Canada. The United States has slashed the USAID program, and a number of European countries and Japan have also made cuts. We're seeing a kind of an international trend where many governments are spending more on defence, but cutting their international aid budgets. In our opinion, these should be two separate budget envelopes, which are not interrelated.
Don't you see such budget cuts to these programs as a problem that could, unfortunately, have harmful consequences?