Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to start with Dr. Lawson. I'd like to talk a bit about the way in which we do our humanitarian and development assistance.
We've talked about this before, and there has been previous testimony about the inability to pivot. If you have a five-year program with activities and outputs, and then all of a sudden a catastrophe happens, it's very difficult for a lot of agencies to respond to that, because it's outside of what their project was funded to do.
I've never forgotten the story about Goma, where Médecins sans Frontières was active. You described going past a number of gated offices with the white vehicles and then literally two minutes down the road was a spontaneous refugee camp that had zero services—that irony.
Can you talk about how we could change the way in which we do our ODA and our development assistance that would allow for the flexibility, the pivoting and responding better to the needs on the ground? The world is changing. Things are happening much more quickly. Can you talk about a way in which we can maybe change how we do it?