Part of our work as we look at our international assistance to Haiti is to pick the right partners and make sure that they have robust mechanisms and controls in place to ensure that the funds the Canadian taxpayers are providing are, in fact, being dedicated to the ends that we envisaged for them. This is one of the reasons we tend to work with multiple large partners like the UNODC, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the OAS and other recognized partners.
For our own specific programs, where we give directly to Canadian or Haitian NGOs, we regularly have audits of their programs in order to ensure that the funds are spent as we have been told they will be.
