Mr. Chair, with your permission, I'll answer that.
We've obtained funding enabling us to send Canadian experts to Haiti to work closely with Mr. Bernard and the provisional electoral council. There's going to be a twinning with Haitians who are qualified in the area, but who are not quite familiar enough with the subject for the moment. So there'll be a knowledge transfer.
In addition, I'm going to have to meet with representatives, including the President of CIDA, to develop a more detailed program to allow for the establishment of a permanent electoral council, which has never occurred in Haiti. So that “p” in the word “provisional” will mean “permanent”. However, with local and municipal elections, members will have to be appointed to the permanent electoral council. We'll have to ensure follow-up.
It will be possible to help develop Haitians' capacity. There will also have to be funding to enable them to achieve that objective. There will be no way to do that without funding. With today's technology, it will no longer be necessary to keep all the paperwork, which is a problem in Haiti. We'll be able to keep everything on a few CDs. So that's what we're headed toward.
I'm going to Haiti next week. I'll talk about all that with Mr. Bernard, whom I'm going to meet, and with other members of the provisional electoral council. I'm going to ask them how we can help them establish a permanent situation there.