Madam Chair, my colleague and I worked together very well on the ALS caucus, and I enjoyed working with him on that very much.
I want to talk about the aid levels Canada is contributing. I do not think anyone in this place will be surprised by that.
Under the present government, we are currently at 0.3%. Many people would think the Liberal government, especially with what we heard from the Prime Minister in 2015, would have contributed more, but in fact our highest overseas development assistance came under Joe Clark, when he was the foreign affairs minister, and the Conservative government. We did not get to our target, but we did get to 0.5%. I will say that the Conservative Party of Joe Clark is definitely not the Conservative Party we have now, which ran in 2019 with a massive cut to ODA.
When can we expect the Liberal government to live up to the very low standards the Conservative government has set with regard to development assistance?