Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here, Ms. Anand.
I am the member for Longueuil—Saint‑Hubert, where we have a large Haitian community. I believe that 87% of the Canadian Haitian community currently live in Quebec, and many members of that community have settled in Longueuil.
In the spring, I gathered together nine Haitian women of various statuses. They have been here for two, three, even five years with one or two of their children, having left two or three more behind. Given the present situation, that was awful for them. They obviously left their children with their grandmothers in a remote village partly populated by armed gangs. I prepared a file, which I submitted toMinister Miller. It was very complicated, but we managed to repatriate three children of those three women. Six cases are still outstanding.
I have a very specific question for you. Even through all these efforts, one fact has been clear to us. You said that our embassy was open in Haiti.
We already had a visa office in Haiti, but we don't know whether it's open or closed. I'm talking about the visa office in Port-au-Prince.
Is it open or closed?