Picking up also on the third question, as a Canadian living in the United States for quite a number of years I have often found myself feeling rather smug vis-à-vis my American colleagues, given many of the issues and conflicts around sexual and reproductive health in that country, issues like the global gag rule that has already been mentioned, for example. I find myself now in the very peculiar position of having to defend my own country when people approach me with some of the same questions about what's happening with Canadian policy: “Why are these positions being taken by your country?”
My personal embarrassment at this is very small in comparison with the potential consequences of this backsliding in Canada's vaunted and well-deserved leadership role on all of these issues for quite a number of years, and I think Canada should regain a leadership role in the G8, along with the rest of our G8 colleagues, and basically show the wider community of nations the direction in which we should be going on maternal mortality.