Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. It's a real pleasure to be here. Monsieur Pétillon, as director of the Haiti program, also lived in Haiti from 2001-04. He should be able to give you some on-the-ground perspectives about some of the developments you've been discussing over the last hour. I

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. I think Mr. Pétillon is going to handle some of the Haiti-specific elements of it. With respect to the issue of results, let me deal with some of the aspects of the study. We're quite conscious in the development area of the kind of framework of results that is a b

Foreign Affairs committee  All right. This is a very interesting paradox, and a very important paradox, of fragile states. You need two things if you're going to be able to build accountable institutions--one is will, the other is capacity. If you don't have will, the money you put into capacity building

Foreign Affairs committee  These are really important questions. I think there's some background information the committee is not getting yet. Being able to take the interim cooperation framework and say, here's the status report, and make the correlation on the figures is going to be absolutely essential.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. We may have inundated you with documents. We tabled a large number of documents, but we only talked about one of them. I agree that it's necessary for you to understand the broader context. As regards education and health, and this is a question for Mr. Martin, I think it

Foreign Affairs committee  Let me, because in fact we spent a lot of time and attention on this particular one, and it actually started in Parliament. The management reporting and results structure that we have goes right down from a sector, to a country, to a project level. And we can actually roll up res

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about a specific document that the committee was interested in, and that was our OECD report on lessons learned in fragile states, so we came with that purpose in mind. Frankly, we would have been far better off to get into a direct discussion

Foreign Affairs committee  Whether you do this through policy or through legislative design, you need a clear, transparent, sophisticated, accountable result structure. That's the absolute core of it. I think that taking a look at what is an effective, accountable results structure allows you to make deci

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Sorenson. It really is an honour to be here. It’s a privilege for us to appear before the committee. We're very pleased to continue to support the work of the committee. We've been following closely the progress of Bill C-293 an

Foreign Affairs committee  We were taking into account both. We're not quite sure where the amendments are going to go, so we needed to make comments on both aspects.

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. McKay, I'd like to answer that one, because it has to do with the amended proposal. The problem as we see it is that it is textual language drawn from the OECD, and it was never meant as legal language. It was always meant as a guideline, a policy statement that gives the sco

Foreign Affairs committee  From a policy perspective, yes, but not within a legal parameter.

Foreign Affairs committee  It could be interpreted as being very narrow--as excluding over 700 Canadian organizations to whom we provide funding.

Foreign Affairs committee  It would be a more encompassing definition.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for your comments. We would like to take a constructive approach to this bill. The identification of some issues will make it easier to see where it's possible to improve it. We are continuing our analysis of Bill C-293 from a technical perspective. It's up to committe