I'm going to start with the Rohingya crisis, because I think it is a very good example of a crisis where Canada stood up and showed significant leadership.
In 2017, at the outset of this crisis, Canada appointed Bob Rae as the special envoy for the Rohingya crisis. There was a report generated. There were recommendations and so on. This was significant not only because of those actions but also because the political capital it mobilized at a high level empowered Canada to take action at the country level in Bangladesh, where quite a bit of significant advocacy happened on behalf of the humanitarian response and of the Rohingya people. That permeated into other countries as well. There was a lot of very good work that happened under Canada's Rohingya strategy. Unfortunately, that wasn't specifically renewed in the budget. We think it should have been. That work needs to continue.
I mention it because it's a very helpful reminder that Canada can take on some of these crises and show significant leadership. I'm not saying that a special envoy is always going to be the solution, but having high-level political endorsement of a Canadian response that mobilizes humanitarian funding, diplomatic efforts, humanitarian advocacy, humanitarian policy and so on can be very effective when all of these resources are put to work in response to a crisis.
Simply funding a humanitarian response is not enough to address the underlying problems that create it or the myriad of problems that come along as organizations try to respond and negotiate access and so on, particularly in violent conflicts.