Foreign Affairs committee  I understand that. Given your perspective as a scientist, you were someone who was maybe leaning on one side and not sure about climate change, and now you've seen the dramatic effects and you're saying that it's even accelerating. If we come further south, people are just star

Foreign Affairs committee  The problem is that a problem's not a problem until it's a problem for you, and it's not a problem yet for us down here, but you see it being a problem up there. Let me ask you another question. Regarding the Inuit, you said the Russians are exploiting.... We use that term. We “

Foreign Affairs committee  What you're saying is that the average Inuit and the average Inuit leadership would be open for themselves to develop it in a certain way.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. I'd like to follow up a bit on some of the questions my colleague Anita was asking. It seems that you both said that a top-down federalist approach didn't work because, from a political perspective, the Somali national government isn't very good at doing things and

Foreign Affairs committee  Do you have something to add there, Jay?

Foreign Affairs committee  We take that approach because we think of Somalia—even as we're talking about it—as a country, but it's not actually a country in a real sense. We try to deal with it as a country, but it's really just a group of people in Mogadishu. The money goes in there, and there's too much

Foreign Affairs committee  I am curious. You touched on this a few times, how there must be a stabilization effect, or the fund.... When you come in and you start helping people on these medical things, how does it impact the political situation? It's sort of a lead-on from what Borys said. How is the inte

Foreign Affairs committee  That is a 19 times multiplier.

Foreign Affairs committee  When you come, you come with both money and expertise, I assume. You don't just come with a cheque. Is that right?

Foreign Affairs committee  Not just health but all types of players come together—

Foreign Affairs committee  —even though it's under the auspices of this particular fund.

Foreign Affairs committee  You talked about the $14 billion you're looking for now. Is that $14 billion over three years? You're looking to have us at your replenishment event this October. The $14 billion, do you want that now, or is it over three years that you want $14 billion? I'm just trying to....

Foreign Affairs committee  You're looking for a pledge of $14 billion this October.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's to cover a three-year period.