Foreign Affairs committee  It's part of their overall co-operation. Aid is a tool, but it's about international co-operation, not about development assistance per se.

Foreign Affairs committee  I can take the first one on the obligation to see through the different stages. From my perspective, we're talking about a relationship that has great breadth and depth. For me, if you're talking about a long-term relationship and this is also part of your premise, then it does make sense for a conversation with a country that's done quite well and is moving through the aid stage, if you will, into the transitional stage.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for inviting me to offer my perspective on your timely study. I'm sure that your findings will make a valuable contribution to the ongoing international assistance review policy. I'd like to address two of the proposed questions. One was around how Canada's international assistance can be designed to work in different types of countries.

Foreign Affairs committee  Hi. I'm Shannon Kindornay, an adjunct research professor at Carleton University. I also happen to work with Aniket and am also an independent consultant. Prior to this, I was with the North-South Institute, which many of you may remember, for about five years.