Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, folks, for being here. We very much appreciate the good work the Red Cross has done, and we are certainly proud of that work. I appreciate also the way you started off this discussion with the very practical remarks about defining disaster versus an event versus the capacity of a nation. That's sort of the direction I want to go in a moment.
I just wanted to pick up on some of the themes. Since my colleagues have asked some of the questions I had lined up, and you've answered them very well, let's go on from there. The land reform question and the lack of access to land was a good one, I think. But you know, we have a real problem here still, a year later after the fact, with debris removal. Maybe that's a good place to start.
To what extent is rubble still an impediment to progress and to actually building those houses you want to build and to housing the people who are desperately going to need it as we move towards a difficult season, weatherwise, there?