Foreign Affairs committee  In this year's budget, you will see that money has been added back to this funding envelope.

Foreign Affairs committee  There were variances because there were increases and decreases. For example, one of the decreases was $130 million for START, for the GPSF, because it came through later on the supplementary estimates.

Foreign Affairs committee  It depends on how you take the definition of development. We do human rights with groups. We do human rights work in China. We do women's empowerment. We do forced early marriage work in India with groups. It depends on how you define development. From a human rights perspective, we are active in some of those countries.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. As you know, we are what you could call a portfolio department with several sectors. I'm the deputy minister for foreign affairs. I'm also the deputy head of the department, which means I'm responsible for the management of the department. My colleague Peter Boehm is the deputy minister for international development.

Foreign Affairs committee  Following “Adoption Day”, where a lot of like-minded countries adjusted the sanctions because of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a number of sanctions were removed. Some of the competitive interests in certain sectors that you're talking about may not be subject to sanctions anymore.

Foreign Affairs committee  By way of example, in Colombia and elsewhere right now, we are looking to see what we can do with our partners with respect to mine-clearing.