I'm fortunate in my riding to have a large number of NGOs who actually were on the ground pretty quickly. I have Emmanuel International and the Christian Blind Mission International. A gentleman in my riding sponsors a couple of orphanages there, which are supported by the Springfield Baptist Church.
One of the things they mentioned to me was that the scope was something they had never seen before, that level of destruction. They were on the ground pretty quickly, and because of the work they had done there and had been doing there for so many years, they also had a bit of institutional knowledge of Haiti.
In the future, is there a way that we can utilize their skills faster, if we haven't already done that? We may have done that. Did we do that? Is there a way of utilizing these people? Some of them did extraordinary work. Two of the ones I was talking to were on the ground within 24 hours. So they managed to get their way there and have food going through the Dominican Republic. I will say that they had nothing but good things to say about how the government reacted and how much more comfortable they were because the Canadian military was on the ground to protect them. That made a big difference in comparison to previous disasters.