Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thanks for that question. I'll start, and then I'll ask Mr. Nickerson to round it out. Thinking of human rights through our lens of humanitarian response, we're concerned about access to health care. We're concerned about access to food and water. Yes, we have very real, very t

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm going to ask my colleague Jason Nickerson to respond to that one.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sorry. Same as you, I had to find that unmute button. Thanks for the remarks. Yes, we do do testing. I can't give you data or figures, and testing has been an issue. It has been a problem—getting access to testing and getting real visibility on how extensive the problem is and h

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, I'll conclude here. A high level of vigilance is needed to prepare for and respond to COVID. However, this vigilance and response cannot come at the expense of ensuring a safe, dignified and high-quality routine health service.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Oh, I'm sorry.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the subcommittee for the opportunity to present to you this evening. The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionally impacting the world's most vulnerable. For many of the men, women and children who live in formal and informal camps, reception

Foreign Affairs committee  This probably won't be a very satisfying answer to your question, Mr. Diotte, but I do want to bring it back to our experience. In the 70 or so contexts where we're providing emergency humanitarian assistance, COVID itself is very seldom at the top of the list of need, particular

Foreign Affairs committee  If I may, just to complement that.... Pardon me for not continuing in the language of Molière. Certainly, such statements are welcome. In terms of our experience on the ground, we absolutely cannot say that there's any sort of difference, let's say, in the level of conflict that

Foreign Affairs committee  Thanks a lot for that question. We have the expert on that with us here today, Jason Nickerson. I'm going to have him answer that.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the committee for the opportunity to present here today. Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF as we are commonly known, is an international medical humanitarian organization that provides impartial medical assistance to people in more than 70 cou

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Thanks so much for the question, and the vote of support as well. I don't think there's an easy, really quick answer to that. The quick response is that we, like everybody else who is responding to needs around the world, are having to make really tough choices right now about w

Finance committee  Thanks for the question. I'll defer to Dr. Nickerson on that one.

Finance committee  You have put your finger on the question that has basically been haunting us since COVID became a reality three months ago and really came onto our radar. There is no good answer to that question. As you put it, we have been witnessing health systems across the world, particular

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you to the committee for the opportunity to present to you today. I am the executive director of Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières, and I am joined by my colleague, Dr. Jason Nickerson, our h