Foreign Affairs committee  No. It's been allocated to FinDev.

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure.

Foreign Affairs committee  Okay. FinDev is a subsidiary of EDC. It reports annually through the EDC. Every year it has a strategic plan that identifies its top priorities. Right now it functions largely in the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't know if Drew has.... I don't have the statistics in front of me right now, but only a small portion of—

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. In terms of the number, for example, of the $1.3 billion that you've noted—

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely—but not very much of it has actually been loaned out yet.

Foreign Affairs committee  Very simply, what the Auditor General found was that we are able to demonstrate that we have results at the project level. However, where we have difficulty is translating across 1,500 individual projects to roll those results up into a single set of indicators.

Foreign Affairs committee  We've struggled at times with telling the larger result story without having to focus on individual elements—such as global health, global food security and the various other ways in which we provide development assistance—to be able to have a single set of indicators that are sm

Foreign Affairs committee  What I would say, very simply, is that if you look at individual projects—and we can go through them one by one—we can demonstrate the great results that are being achieved. The difficulty has been in reporting in a succinct, global way across all of those individual projects.

Public Accounts committee  South Korea used to be one of the poorest countries on the planet. It is one of the prime development success stories. South Korea is now an important trading partner with Canada. In the Indo-Pacific, South Korea is increasing as an important ally for Canada. It is a thriving dem

Public Accounts committee  Obviously, it's difficult for me to not agree with that statement. I think our official development assistance is one of the primary tools in Canada's tool kit when it comes to our overseas interests—our national interests that are overseas. The best example of this was the pan

Public Accounts committee  No, I can't agree with that, actually. One of the things I can say is that only 20% of the projects the Auditor General reviewed were actually completed. The other 80% were still, as we understood.... Because they were begun basically over the first three years of the policy, 80

Public Accounts committee  Yes, obviously the pandemic had a significant impact, and quite a varied impact, depending on what part of the world you're talking about. In some parts of the world, it required us to slow down projects, as teams on the ground were forced to go off-line. They went through the ex

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely.

Public Accounts committee  I can assure you that this is central to everything we are going to do to give specific responses to the recommendations, which is only a start. We are going to continue our momentum in this matter and completely overhaul the way we show Canadians everything we are doing in relat