Thank you.
Ms. Snowdon, I was quite interested in the discussion about having a comprehensive plan in terms of the G8. I want to read a quotation from Maureen McTeer. She was at the committee on May 5. She said:
Some countries use the lakes as a method of transportation, or women will be on the backs of bicycles for 30 miles, in labour, trying to get somewhere. It's a bit late then.
Why don't they go earlier? Perhaps it's because they have no money or perhaps they have no one to babysit their kids. Perhaps their husband says “No, you're not allowed to leave the village”...
That would seem to me to be the reality we're talking about in terms of this G8/G20 initiative. These are the kinds of lives we want to impact.
So I'm wondering how including this issue of transportation safety in the package is going to make a substantive difference when we consider this reality.