Foreign Affairs committee  We have a very robust evaluation function inside the department, in particular on the development side, for looking at work that we do with multilateral organizations. They are assessed. They are looked at and examined in terms of their effectiveness in Canada's role in those organizations on a regular basis.

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, perhaps I can answer that question. It goes back to, I think, the question that Minister Bibeau fielded in the previous session in terms of funding for the sustainable development goals. We haven't actually established priorities and identified specific activities in support of the sustainable development goals.

Foreign Affairs committee  Maybe I could say just a couple of things. I don't think there are any inconsistencies between the mandate letter and the act as it's currently laid out. As you know, sir, there are three key elements to the act: taking into account the perspectives of the poor, respecting human rights, and of course ensuring that development assistance is focused on poverty reduction.

Foreign Affairs committee  On corporate social responsibility, Mr. Chairman, yes, there have been a number of discussions over the last few years in terms of how we want to move forward. In terms of the new government, I've certainly not been privy to discussions directly with ministers at this point in time with regard to how we want to move forward to strengthen standards or strengthen the provisions, etc.

Foreign Affairs committee  Again, we don't have that expertise at this table. We'd be happy to go back and consult our Asia-Pacific branch and get back to you on that.

Foreign Affairs committee  Perhaps I could jump in, Mr. Chairman, on the evaluations side. We have a very robust evaluation function inside the department on the development side. On a five-year rolling plan, we evaluate all of our programming right across the board, 100%. That includes, as Heather said, the agencies and organizations we work with, including on the humanitarian side.

Foreign Affairs committee  I will defer to my former ambassadorial colleagues. I screwed up the number the last time, so....

Foreign Affairs committee  All I can say at this point, Mr. Chair, is that my colleagues on the trade side are working very hard at implementing that mandate letter commitment in terms of the trade and export strategy. I can't give you a specific deadline right now, but I know they're working very hard on it.

Foreign Affairs committee  I think that question is a little bit out of our remit, because none of us at this table is actually directly responsible for Latin America and the Carribean. Colleague David Morrison is the assistant deputy minister for the Americas. I was talking before, as was Alex, about the four geographic ADMs.

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Foreign Affairs committee  As you say, it's an easy question, depending on how you answer it and whether it's going to be career-enhancing or not.

Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, I'll clarify. We're assistant deputy ministers, two directors general, and one acting assistant deputy minister. I'm not quite at the deputy minister level; you have ministers, deputy ministers, and assistant deputy ministers. However, that doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day we, as public officials, provide the best policy advice we can to ministers.

Foreign Affairs committee  The 10,000 employees are all Canadians, I do believe. I don't think they include the locally engaged staff. I'll defer to my colleagues here, who are ex-DFAIT. I'm an ex-CIDA wonk. Maybe they have the exact breakdown of the numbers.

Foreign Affairs committee  I wanted to go back to your question about terrorist financing. I'm the G20 sherpa to the Prime Minister, and I can tell you that at the last G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey, if you read the communiqué, you see some very, very strong language with respect to terrorism financing.

Foreign Affairs committee  One of my other hats is that I help manage the international assistance envelope, so perhaps I can pitch in on this one as well. I think the short answer is that the way it plays out is being developed right now, in terms of new money versus reallocated resources within the international assistance envelope and how we play that.