Thank you very much, Ambassador, and thank you very much, honourable member.
I appreciate the conversation we've had so far and the conversation that I heard from the previous panel.
There's no question that the crisis of displacement is extremely complicated. It's extremely complex. I think the ambassador did a very good job of speaking to the different ways in which Canada responds.
From my vantage point of the humanitarian response, I can tell you that the billion dollars the ambassador spoke of earlier is reaching people in 67 countries. Most of those people have been affected by conflict or by natural disasters. We're working with a really strong group of partners—the UN, the Red Cross, civil society, Canadian civil society actors and national civil society actors—to provide the type of assistance that people on the move need in order to feel protected, to feel safe and to feel that they are not at risk of being sent home into difficult and dangerous conditions. We're working to support them in the spaces and places where they are, and also to support the communities that host them.
I think that's a very important point. Governments—like Colombia, but everywhere—that are hosting refugees are doing so often at times when they have great crises of their own. I think 87% of refugees are in lower- and middle-income countries. They are already facing significant challenges, and they need to be supported in the work they're doing to welcome refugees and other displaced persons.
I'll leave it there.