Mr. Brian Glynn:

I would like to make one final comment, which is almost an aside from the report. Sometimes when one engages in a process of having a national action plan, one has this old fashioned notion that we in the West are developed, rich and know everything and, therefore, this is how we will apply these things in developing countries. In regard to the comment about women parliamentarians from Africa, the parliaments of many African countries have higher levels of women representation than we do, so there is a cross-learning process here. We could certainly learn from some of the things being done in Liberia and Timor Leste in terms of women's participation. I say that, I suspect, more as a citizen than as a civil servant but these are things which I have discovered, as I have been working on it for the past three and half years. Sometimes one tends to say to these countries, "Here is our blueprint", but when one looks at it, in some ways, they have done it better than we have.