Mr. Richard Clair at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

I can speak only for the Canadian Red Cross. There really are safety problems in Haiti. I think that, on average, two police officers are killed each week in Port-au-Prince. The political situation also sometimes prevents us from doing our work. So, last year, we stopped our work for almost a week because of rioting.

So the matter of safety is real, even if the MINUSTAH brings some amount of stability. When we are in Haiti, safety is something that we must always consider when we want to do work.