Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Kingsley, Ms. Davidson, I'd like to go back to the elections in Haiti. I have two brief questions to ask. First, is it possible that the provisional electoral council may become a permanent electoral council? Every time there are elections, for security reasons, for various reasons, we have a lot of trouble finding people to be part of the provisional council, who can really work on a provisional electoral council.
Here's my second question. We know there are two presidential rounds — there was only one this time — and two legislative rounds, and that there will be municipal elections. So you're virtually going to have four elections in one year. Since senators are elected for six-year terms, there's going to be another election with alternating terms: 10 senators elected every two years. So there's going to be another election of 10 senators in two years. We also know that all that's well entrenched in the Haitian Constitution, that it's very difficult to amend that Constitution, that the cost of an election is enormous there and that it is completely funded by the international community.
Knowing all that, wouldn't it be possible to conduct studies to see if we couldn't twin, combine the legislative elections with the presidential or municipal elections? The money that's spent on elections could be spent in another way. It could be used to help relieve poverty, to help the country, which so needs it. I wonder, given the cost, whether the international community will still be able to support elections again and again. That's very costly, and Haitians currently can't afford to hold them themselves.