Are you not under the impression that you're caught in a vicious circle?
I have become aware of some remarks on the subject of a decade of difficult partnerships. I imagine that my colleagues have done the same. The issue is Canadian cooperation with Haiti. The Canadian International Development Agency has worked on this. I was flabbergasted to discover the "disappointing results" of Canadian assistance to Haiti over many years. These are the terms that were used. An assessment was done and apparently, of 450 projects, almost none worked, for all kinds of reasons.
There is currently a Canadian military presence in Haiti. We are also part of a kind of organization that should ensure or maintain the peace, or bring it about. But you are telling us that there is none. There are armed gangs but there is no security. It may not be the entire population, but the fact remains that this small group does whatever it wants.
I cannot understand why organizations like your own do not sound the alarm with all these wonderful people who testified here and who came to talk to us about all of the huge efforts being made, asking us to renew their mandates. If those are the results, we will not renew them. All that costs money.