I'm not sure whether this is in your mandate at all, but you identified that there are 3.4 million Haitians, two-thirds of whom are underemployed or unemployed.
You've been working in training and development on mini and micro projects. Obviously, with mini and micro projects, and service industry types of projects too, to capture and to recover and fully employ the fully one-third of Haitians who need employment, it would have to go to the private and industrial sectors. There has been some movement there, with companies such as Gildan Activewear, with 4,000 to 5,000 jobs.
Would you care to comment on whether your organization is doing anything to encourage the private sector, and whether CIDA funding should be considering that civil development can only proceed when it necessitates business development?
In other words, there is a discussion in other committees too whether some effort shouldn't be given towards part of this funding that develops the economy and develops a micro industry also being utilized to encourage major industry.