Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses here this afternoon.
I think we're all in agreement that there are some tremendous atrocities going on. We also accept the fact that our foreign affairs minister recently made a statement to this effect, and I think that will help move this dialogue along.
I just want to clarify a few points about CIDA. I think there was a suggestion that China was one of the larger recipients of CIDA's aid, and that's not a fact. I believe Mr. Burton, or maybe Mr. Neve, commented that it's not one of the countries of focus or concentration by any means,
Mr. Sorenson probably started down this road, and the figures may not be accurate now, but there are a tremendous number of poor people living on less than a dollar a day. I believe two-thirds of the world's poor still live there. We can't abandon them; CIDA has to recognize that. My question is, how do we do it to make sure it doesn't get diverted to the wrong method, if you will, to the wrong purpose?
We've been there for a lot of years, and frankly, the minister is looking at it very seriously, because some of us here are on the record, as opposition members, criticizing that fact—