Good afternoon, ladies. Good afternoon, sir. Welcome to our committee. It really is very interesting to hear you, but it is especially troubling to see the extent to which we are divided, as you said.
We are not really divided. We must understand that, even if we play politics, we are here for all women.
I would like to understand one thing. We know that, often, at G8 meetings, countries have major joint projects for which they give great speeches accompanied by great selling points, but we lack the willingness to see these projects through. In fact, for one reason or another, these projects fall by the wayside. Our joint projects fall by the wayside, which is not what we would like to see happen right now.
There is a consensus that transparency and accountability are issues when G8 countries make promises. When this initiative was launched, we also wanted to improve transparency and accountability to ensure that the G8 members would make smart promises in June so that countries would be able to keep them and could see them through together.
Are you in favour of Canada taking measures to increase transparency and accountability?