Foreign Affairs committee  I would only add that Michael is right. There are a few suspects that were arrested in Jamaica and then deported to the U.S., because there is no extradition treaty between Jamaica and Haiti. There's also a suspect in Turkey that Haiti is working to bring to Haiti, and also someone who was arrested next door in the Dominican Republic, so it seems like the walls are coming in, and most of these cases are being dealt with in a court of law in the United States.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. I was appointed this fall and I started on October 5. This is my third time working on the Haiti file. The two previous times, I worked at headquarters in Ottawa. In the aftermath of the earthquake on January 12, 2010, I worked for the crisis task force set up in response to the earthquake for several months.

Foreign Affairs committee  I think that “multi‑dimensional” is the right term for this crisis. Security is an extremely worrying issue. We're hearing talk of 1,000 kidnappings last year. However, most experts think that there were many more. Many kidnappings aren't reported. Matters are settled directly, in two or three days, between the families and the criminals involved.

Foreign Affairs committee  I will maybe just add that the timing of this meeting is actually excellent because today is February 7, and that's the day that presidential mandates end and begin here in Haiti. Ariel Henry was nominated by President Moïse, and that term, that mandate, was going to end today, so we're now in a situation where everybody is sort of accusing everybody else of not being legitimate.