Foreign Affairs committee  Unfortunately, I don't have that answer with me, but again, I would be happy to get back to you in terms of the way forward on that.

Foreign Affairs committee  In terms of the crisis pool, at the beginning of every fiscal year, Global Affairs Canada has access to $200 million. It's frozen within our reference levels. When different crises occur around the globe and we require additional funding above and beyond what we have in our existing base reference level, we can make a request to access and unfreeze the funding that's in our quick-release mechanism.

Foreign Affairs committee  What we're asking for in these supplementary estimates is just to bring forward funding that was unspent from last year into our reference levels this year so that if there is a requirement for those funds, we would be able to access them. I don't know, Peter, if you'd like to add any additional details.

Foreign Affairs committee  Unfortunately, I don't have that information with me here.

Foreign Affairs committee  Oh, Peter—

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for those questions. Again, I don't have that information with me, but I would be happy to provide that in writing to the committee.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for your question. Unfortunately, I don't have the information available to respond. I note that a colleague who is in charge of that region of the world is appearing during the second 50 minutes this afternoon. Perhaps that would be a question he may be prepared to respond to.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. I'll turn to my colleague Peter MacDougall for a response.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. I'll turn to Amanda.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. I will ask my colleague Peter MacDougall to respond.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm sorry; I don't have that information with me. I would be happy to go back to the department and find out where we are in terms of that intervention. Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. Unfortunately, I'm not sure why they were not available to attend today.

Foreign Affairs committee  Unfortunately, I don't have that answer with me. I do know that Canada has one of the tightest regimes in terms of export strategies and controls. I would be very surprised if we were actually providing that kind of equipment. I will definitely go back to the department and try to find you an answer.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. I'll ask my colleague Amanda to respond.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't have a response to that in particular, but maybe what I can say is that we do recognize the importance of our civil society organizations in general, just in terms of greater localization and effectiveness of our international aid. I can possibly get back to you with some further information if you're interested.