Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
It's a great pleasure for me to have our witnesses with us today. Thank you for your testimony.
I've had the privilege and pleasure of working with both Ms. Martel and Ms. Asselin in my previous life before I was elected.
Ms. Martel, I'm going to start with you, if I could.
I'm very interested in how you are talking about that humanitarian response and what it should look like. Every one of us is horrified about what we are seeing in Haiti right now and we're trying to find those ways to provide the support in the most effective way possible.
I'm hearing things like half of the population is food insecure. We've been hearing all of the things that you've said about needing to have indigenous solutions and long-term, predictable funding.
Are we finding ourselves in this situation because the responses the international community has provided to Haiti in the past have not been indigenous-led, long term, predictable and working with civil society? Is that why we're here?
Is there a risk that will happen again and we will provide a band-aid system of development?