Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your appearance here today and for the good work that you and your colleagues do in Haiti to help the people there who desperately need our help. I really do think that Canadians owe you a debt of gratitude for the work that you do there.
I'd like to start with Mr. Allen. In your remarks you mentioned land title reform. I've heard something about this. I've heard that there are problems with the land title system in Haiti and that it in some way hampers relief efforts, the ability to build new buildings and especially to replace residential housing that may have fallen down in the earthquake. Could you expand a little on that and tell us a little bit more about what the problem is and what might be done to fix that problem?