Thank you very much.
We're in favour of the sanctions. We've been saying for more than a year now that Haiti's various partners must be able to take measures under their legislation and develop public policies to control weapons and apply various sanctions. However, they must be careful in imposing sanctions, particularly when they do so in the economic sector. You have to understand that the three individuals who have been sanctioned until now control 30% to 50% of the banking sector. We therefore want to note that, in addition to those sanctions, specific measures are necessary to support the banking sector, which is already in precarious condition.
However, we understand the need to impose sanctions. You are an autonomous state, you have imposed sanctions, and we are grateful to you for that. We even think there are still a lot of names that don't appear on the list of persons targeted by these sanctions. However, support measures will also be necessary.
Furthermore, we Haitians will also have to be able to nationalize sanctions, as it were. We will have to determine what our legislation enables us to do. For example, will everything that Canada seizes or freezes revert to the Canadian government or to the Haitian government once we have a transitional government? These are all matters that will have to be discussed under a cooperative arrangement among Canada, Haiti and the transitional government.