Foreign Affairs committee  I don't mind speaking more in my capacity as a public health doctor on this front. Quite apart from Canada's decision to execute its options through the COVAX program, which would provide us with additional vaccine supplies by the end of June, hopefully our own vaccine procuremen

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. In terms of the top things that I would recommend, Canada's contributions to ODA have been basically stagnating for many years now. We still are coming in at well under the target of 0.7% that was set by the United Nations. My bigger concern here is that, as we go fo

Foreign Affairs committee  Is the question for me or for Mr. Landry?

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Landry didn't get a chance to answer, so maybe it would be good if he answered the question.

Foreign Affairs committee  We started engaging in using the basic technology of radio.... It's actually modelled after farm radio, which started in Saskatchewan in the 1950s. We looked at areas where children were having difficulty accessing school and where a lot of girls—particularly in the eastern Congo

Foreign Affairs committee  We have always done that. We have always prioritized. In fact, that is why we exist. We exist to try to decolonize aid and aid approaches in the sense that we work with local partners, they design the programs, they run the programs and implement the programs. We have either loca

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. This is undoubtedly an uncertain and difficult time for children and young people around the world, but especially for those living in poverty and war zones. As a medical doctor and public health specialist, I've spent a quar

Foreign Affairs committee  Norway. Absolutely Norway.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm of the belief that there is always room for improvement in everything we do. Certainly I would say that Canada's visibility, at least in the areas where we are working, is not that high when it comes to protection. The exception I would put on that would be Syria, because cer

Foreign Affairs committee  [Inaudible--Editor]...and still pooled emergency funds. It's all six months to one year. We're engaged in livelihoods, we work with youth. We know that engaging those young people in those employment opportunities dramatically decreases the likelihood that they will participate w

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for that. There have been some changes taking place with what used to be CIDA, and what's now DFATD, in terms of how we view what's normally called IHA, international humanitarian assistance. Normally if there is a crisis, for example in Syria, there will be either a r

Foreign Affairs committee  No, I think what should happen is that it should be more receptive to including financial support for those kinds of activities. At the moment, often when those announcements are made, the decisions have already taken place that it will be Red Cross for this and MSF for that. Tho

Foreign Affairs committee  Where are those funding decisions made? It's the Prime Minister's Office, it's Foreign Affairs, it's CIDA, it's.... This is not just now; this has been going on for the last 15 years. We've been on the front lines of having conversations, internal and external, with CIDA to get

Foreign Affairs committee  I would echo that: it's the capacity to be able to deploy quickly and to know that those resources are there for a longer period of time. But I'm going to be honest with you, because I think.... This is a challenge that we face all around the world. We are in Darfur in Sudan, d