Foreign Affairs committee  I think the first question was whether either of our guests had experience with the climate change development fund. I have to say I'm drawing a little bit of a blank on it, but they may know something about it. Have you heard about it, either of you?

Foreign Affairs committee  To briefly answer the question you asked about what we would recommend to government at this point, I think we would continue to say that it was a wise, and I think good, policy to look at a ramping-up of Canada's aid for agriculture, which had fallen to 2% of our aid budget, aro

Foreign Affairs committee  That's right. I think we would bring an additional recommendation today saying that this really needs to be acted upon. I think that was the sense of the all-party resolution coming from the standing committee back in February. The additional point that we want to bring is tha

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll speak briefly to the question of untying food aid. In fact, if some of you were here when we spoke before 2005, it was an issue that we frequently brought as a desirable policy change. The Canadian Foodgrains Bank, indeed the farmers who support the Canadian Foodgrains Ban

Foreign Affairs committee  May I just add one brief comment? I want to make reference to the World Bank's World Development Report this year. It was particularly important. It's the first time in 23 years the World Bank has pronounced the “A” word—for agriculture--and we were very glad to see that. Also

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Sorenson. I want to express our thanks for the previous times that this committee has heard our testimony. You'll recall that it was just ten months ago that we spoke to you. There was an all-party resolution resulting from that presentation about an agr