Foreign Affairs committee  It's a different topic than the one before the committee today, but since I'm responsible for the fund, I'm happy to answer to the best of my ability. The proposal to renew the stabilization and reconstruction task force under the global peace and security fund is a matter of co

Foreign Affairs committee  If I may, I'll also just add that, for Canada, we support the idea of mainstreaming gender issues into all of our various forms of assistance, not just isolating the issue as gender on its own but ensuring that we're always supporting that to whatever degree through our project w

Foreign Affairs committee  It's an excellent question. I wish I had a very good answer for you. I don't believe I have a lot of detail on Haiti in front of me. Again, I'll defer to my colleague if we have anything on that. Certainly, it's an aspect in our training of the national police in Haiti and so fo

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll see if my colleagues have anything more to add on that. This will be a critical part of these consultations that we do to update our national action plan, as we seek to constantly improve how we measure results in our assistance, whether it's development, security, or stab

Foreign Affairs committee  We have a number of projects in Guatemala. As for my program, the Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force, START, there is always a project under way in order to prevent violence and support victims. We have carried out a number of projects over the past few years. START carr

Foreign Affairs committee  If I may, I apologize for taking the microphone again. There's a recent example where Canada has been supporting prevention and follow-up to sexual violence in Guatemala for some time. There has been recent publicity around some convictions surrounding that, and we're pleased to

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for your question and for your comments. It's a hugely important point. I can comment a bit anecdotally. It's not always easy to achieve. One example is when we began work to deliver on a commitment from 2014, where Canada committed $10 million to addressing

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for that important question. I regret that I don't have that information with me as it's not part of my own mandate, but we do have programs within Global Affairs Canada, and I think we would be pleased to return with some detailed information. Human traffick

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for that question. It's a really important dimension of not just how we support women and girls, but how we support better outcomes, whether it's coming out of conflict or coming out of a major disaster which is integrating gender considerations right from t

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. I’m sorry if we gave you the impression that we were stressing protection too much, but the fact remains that it is very important, of course. Participation and the positive features of this program are so important. However, that's not always easy.

Foreign Affairs committee  That is a very good question and my colleague Anthony Anderson will answer it.

Foreign Affairs committee  In terms of enforcing the codes, again speaking more for the international diplomatic arena, this goes very much to the support we offer to the United Nations, to the Secretary-General directly, to his representatives on peacekeeping, to the representative on sexual exploitation

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. I'll do my best not to speak on behalf of other departments and agencies about the specifics of how they train, but I can confirm that we do provide.... Canada trains its own peacekeepers, both military and police peacekeepers, on the issues

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for that question. Again, in terms of Canadian recruitment, I could speak to it, but internationally.... I gave an example to the honourable member regarding Afghanistan, where Canadian funding supports the capacity building of Afghan armed and police forces,

Foreign Affairs committee  That's an excellent question. I wish there were a straightforward answer. I think it very much depends on the type of intervention that's being considered, whether it's an urgent humanitarian intervention, a long-term capacity-building or developmental project, or a stabilizati