Foreign Affairs committee  I have just a few comments.

Foreign Affairs committee  We consider Aristide a man of the past today. We think Haiti needs reconciliation. When you see all of the messages sent by Aristide from South Africa, which he does at least on a yearly basis—and he just sent one in December or January—they are not the kinds of messages that wil

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  I didn't expect such a detailed question, but I will say at the moment that close to half the money spent this year will go to education and health and to reinforce governance. The other part will go to infrastructure, police reform, justice system reform, as well as correctional

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  The president's personal objective is to have 50%.

Foreign Affairs committee  Canada is really involved in trying to increase services for women in all sectors. For example, we just had a mission to Haiti's parliament a few months ago to encourage women to involve themselves in political life. We do the same thing at the local level to try to organize wome

Foreign Affairs committee  I think the CEP has gained a lot of its own capacities. In these last municipal elections, they were the ones who really conducted the whole thing on their own, so they've learned from all of the advisory services, especially from Canada in the past. So they have those capacities

Foreign Affairs committee  I can answer the first part of the question and you can answer the second part of the question.

Foreign Affairs committee  At the moment, I would say it's less than half a million dollars. This is concentrated in building a new prison in Fort-Liberté in the northern part of the country. We are also thinking of building a new prison in St. Marc. A technical mission was in Haiti just a few weeks ago

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, but in a month I think we will have eight correctional services officers from Canada there. At the moment, we have four on the ground, but we'll get four more in the coming weeks.

Foreign Affairs committee  Representatives from the embassy visited Mr. Charbonneau less than three weeks ago to assess his state of health and his morale. The visit was reassuring. There were no causes for concern, even though, you are right, conditions are difficult. We are monitoring this matter very cl

Foreign Affairs committee  Corrections.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, we do a lot in support of the department of health at the national level, as well as in a few departments, mainly in Artibonite where we do concentrate our efforts. Education will be a sector of concentration for CIDA in the coming years, so we will again want to support e