The Women Deliver conference is bringing together 3,500 experts and professionals from around the world, including many development cooperation ministers. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is likely to open the conference. There are 80 parliamentarians from all over the world, from every G-20 country and beyond, attending that conference.
It's a few weeks before the G-8 meeting here in Canada. It's an opportunity for our Prime Minister, I believe, to go and show leadership and talk with people who care deeply on these issues, to listen and learn and exchange views that will help him prepare for the summit a couple of weeks later.
It would also be an opportunity for Canada to show its leadership role and regain some of the tarnished reputation that we have suffered over the last several years in terms of our leadership role at the international level. It's a wonderful opportunity to move the agenda forward and build on the momentum that has been growing.
So I think it would be extremely important.... I understand Minister Oda said yesterday that she would attend. But I think it would be really important for him, especially in this year, to attend and talk with President Obama.