National Defence committee  On the de-mining side, we are looking at $400,000 that would go to the UN Mine Action Services. That would be for that UN organization to provide expertise and advice to the Libyan authorities to set up their own mechanism to deal with de-mining. In addition, we are going to make

National Defence committee  Thank you. The key element in all of this is that there's general consensus that the Libyans have to lead the process; they have to tell us what it is they need. They told the international community and the UN mission that they wouldn't do that until victory had been declared

National Defence committee  We are doing things. We are in the process of looking at what it is that we could do relatively quickly.

National Defence committee  I would just add in a more general way that you might be aware that the Council on Human Rights of the United Nations has set up a commission of inquiry about the human rights situation in Libya. This is an important exercise, of course, and with our global peace and security fun

National Defence committee  My colleague form the Department of National Defence talked about their contribution, but all those issues are certainly coordinated by the UN as they have already acknowledged the extent of the problem. A certain amount of time will be needed to assess the needs. At the same ti

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the member for this question. There are in fact a huge number of weapons in Libya. Mr. Ian Martin, the special representative of the secretary general, held an information session yesterday at the Security Council. And he pointed out t

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I would add that the advocacy side of this issue remains very important. It was mentioned in our statement that Canada has greatly contributed to raising awareness about what's going on there. Other countries, other partners, are also concerned and they are doing initiatives simi

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think what my colleague just said is absolutely right. Our programs aim more at capacity building and training rather than at the actual building of prisons in the DRC. For example, we are working to equip the Police Nationale Congolaise with multimedia training tools. We want

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I would add that there's a greater capacity to prosecute as well. The government has adopted a zero-tolerance policy with regard to violations of human rights, including sexual violence by the armed forces. It doesn't mean that it's been fully implemented, but we can see a positi

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If I may, I'll mention that we have a number of projects focusing especially on conflict minerals. The main one is with Partnership Africa Canada, through which we have up to $1.7 million to help the DRC and to assist the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region's secr

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not aware of any....

Foreign Affairs committee  As I said, I'm sure that the angle of the participation of women is certainly included in that. Do we have a separate program for women? For the time being, no. You were talking about the region. As you know, Minister Baird was in Libya, for example, two weeks ago already, and

Foreign Affairs committee  Our programming activities in Egypt have focused on democratic development because we think it's very important to ensure the long-term stability of the country. We have put in place some projects. The first one is with Rights and Democracy and is a project of about $130,000 to

Foreign Affairs committee  It is absolutely part of the training. I previously mentioned one particular project to support the security services related to the problem of gender-based violence in Haiti. We do that with UN Women. There's a $1 million contribution to that effect. But more generally speaking,

Foreign Affairs committee  I would add two comments. You heard a while ago that, since 2006, Canada has spent close to $100 million through our program called the Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force. Of that amount, close to $65 million have been spent on projects relating to police training and r