Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to respond to my colleague's question on behalf of our Minister for International
Co-operation who takes major responsibility in the government for international poverty issues.
Canada is very committed to the issues of international poverty and works together with the multilateral community to effect progress. We have seen some progress but we hope that by the year 2015 we with the international community will be able to reach some further significant targets.
Canada works by providing up to 25 per cent of its official development assistance for programs of health and education, clean water, sanitation, micro enterprise works, programs that will have a benefit for women. We will continue to work with the international community to do more in this field.