Foreign Affairs committee  That is a very difficult question. How can you appropriate development when each inhabitant is living on less than a dollar a day? It's quite difficult. To begin with, there has to be a local tax system, or at least, those who live on more than a dollar a day there must pay thei

Foreign Affairs committee  That's quite an important question. At Results Canada, we see an economy that may not be growing as fast as we wish. But it is growing and the aid budget is not, which means that our aid is a smaller and smaller proportion of our national wealth. We wouldn't want to see that happ

Foreign Affairs committee  I will begin, if you will. I think that this is quite fundamental. I will give the example of the mining company Teck Cominco, in Canada. It supports micronutrient programs, involving zinc, to be specific. Zinc is provided to very poor populations, such as in Senegal, for instan

Foreign Affairs committee  I am just going to say that the theory about public goods is very simple: Who benefits from a population free of contagious diseases? Well, we all benefit, so it's not a private good to have a world free of disease, but it's actually all of us who benefit. So it's not a private i

Foreign Affairs committee  Let's talk about the financial and mining sectors. These are sectors in which Canada has a comparative advantage. Indeed, banks are more important, and the mining sector is very present both in Canada and elsewhere in the world. I would like to give you two examples. These are n

Foreign Affairs committee  We're all in favour of the private sector. Indeed, we hope there'll be private sector participation in the global fund that we mentioned just a minute ago, because it's important. Right now we only have money for the standstill. We'll need further contributions from donors and al

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm happy to see that we share the same enthusiasm about the effectiveness of the global fund against AIDS, TB, and malaria, and perhaps share the same concerns around the table about the fact that the global fund could receive more funding and do more really extraordinary miracl

Foreign Affairs committee  Payments are really important, and if further payments can be front-loaded, that would make a huge difference. The public sector is fundamental, and we in Canada know this. We like our public health and education institutions, and I think they would be the things to export to th

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Mr. Chairman, I thank you for giving us the opportunity to present our organization's point of view this morning on the important topic of the role of the private sector in international development. I have the honour to represent Results Canada. Our organi