Foreign Affairs committee  Land registry.

Foreign Affairs committee  I think we should just make a distinction between the construction of a building, which in the circumstances--proposals made, earthquake, having to redo the whole process and follow the rules--is one thing, and the mentoring and the training that we have been engaged in with the

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Dechert. It is one of the fundamental missing links in Haiti. Denis Robert can expand because he has been working with the Government of Quebec and with France, and with others and with the Haitian government. In terms of the nature of the problem, not only is it

Foreign Affairs committee  On the institution-building front, a lot of work was needed even before the earthquake. On the positive side, the macroeconomic situation in Haiti was actually quite good before the earthquake. It was one of its brighter spots. The Haitian national bank and the finance ministry w

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Yes, as you indicated, we do work very closely with the UN and the OAS. The OAS was instrumental in providing electoral observation during the most recent elections. The UN, of course, is the organization behind MINUSTAH. Brazil, one of our partners in the hemisphere,

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. If you do not mind, I will answer in English. I'll turn the floor over to Marie Gervais-Vidricaire to add more. In the first instance, we have tended to focus on institution building to try to ensure the police, corrections, and border services have the infrastruct

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Today I have with me Marie Gervais-Vidricaire, director general of the Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force. They're our bankers, the people who provide the funds that enable us to do rule-of-law institution-building in Haiti. I also have the dire

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of committee. It's my pleasure to be with you today to discuss a country of great importance to Canada and to the hemisphere. Canada has been active in Haiti for decades, but unlike other countries, we have no colonial baggage in that country. Ou

International Trade committee  You were actually pretty comprehensive in your description of what is happening. We have two focuses. We have the embassy in Washington, which is coordinating with all of our missions—22 missions in the U.S.—to ensure that we are getting to members of Congress in their districts

International Trade committee  It's Ambassador Doer in Washington. It's our consuls-general in our various missions right around the United States. Here in Ottawa at the officials level, it would be Louis Lévesque, the Deputy Minister of International Trade, and the assistant deputy minister for trade policy,

International Trade committee  First of all, I think we should note and just remind ourselves that we have made progress. You're talking about a specific case, which is very relevant and important: somebody who was dealing with New York City, which is local.

International Trade committee  We've dealt with federal and state, so we've made some progress, which does send a bit of a signal the other way. Secondly, I think in respect of this legislation--and you acknowledged it--we do have to remember, frankly, that the chances of it going through as is are not partic

International Trade committee  Yes, to some extent we are going down the same path. It's quite a different context. One does not have to make excuses for the Americans, but the President is facing an incredibly high unemployment rate. He's facing no growth. He's facing an election, and rather than thinking of

International Trade committee  We're working with the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters; with the CCCE, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives; and with the majority of those individuals, companies, and associations that are being affected or potentially could be affected if this legislation were to go th

International Trade committee  That is correct.