Well, why Africa? Close to 70% of the UN's peace operations missions are in Africa. Invariably, if you want to make a difference in peace operations, you're more than likely going to have to do it in Africa.
Secondly, why Mali? Mali is where our requirements, our specialized capabilities that we agreed as a government to make available, correspond with the need. The match was there. Of course, there are additional considerations that make Mali conducive to Canada, given our long tradition, our ongoing very fulsome kinds of development assistance and other kinds of support, and our linguistic capabilities, all of which lend themselves to making Mali a place suitable for what we have to offer.