Mr. Speaker, at the last pledging conference, Canada offered to contribute $5.5 million to help with the health, education and water supplies in the West Bank and Palestine. That brings the total contributions to about $70 million since 1993.
Last night in Montreal I attended a meeting of the Canadian, Jewish and Arab communities, where they got together to talk for the first time about what Canada had contributed. What is really important is that the private sector should come together, improving investment, commerce, trade and development. That is the most important way we can give hope to the Palestinian people.