Afghanistan committee  I would reiterate, Monsieur Brunelle-Duceppe, my comments that women and girls—and marginalized communities, in which I would include LGBTQ Afghans—are significantly disproportionately negatively impacted by the current nature of the crisis. While Canadian funding is not curren

Afghanistan committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Brunelle‑Duceppe. Let me make it clear that CARE Canada's Canadian funding is effectively not operational on the ground in Afghanistan, because of the restrictions of the Criminal Code. The current framing of the Criminal Code, as interpreted b

Afghanistan committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am very sorry. I had one of those horrible technological nightmares signing on. I am here; I am going to proceed and I ask for your patience. Please accept my very sincere apologies. I'm speaking to you from our offices located on the unceded and unaban

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. I think I'm going to really mirror what my colleagues from the Red Cross have said. Quite frankly, our job over time, in any country and in any context, is to work ourselves out of a job there. Our job is to build local infrastructure, local capacity and local leadership c

Foreign Affairs committee  When we look at those troubling statistics around femicide, female genital mutilation and access to family planning, to contraceptives and to safe birthing situations, I think that globally we have made remarkable progress over the last 10, 15 or 20 years. Globally, virtually eve

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll give you a concrete example. I was on the phone this morning, for a good chunk of time actually, with a woman named Ruth, who works for CARE in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. I asked Ruth what the impact of COVID has been in Cox's. She runs the gender-based violence and the gender

Foreign Affairs committee  Maxime, do you want to lead off on that?

Foreign Affairs committee  No, we have not.

Foreign Affairs committee  I think we would work very quickly. We'd be able to pivot very quickly with some of the concept notes we already have in the pipeline to do some pretty life-saving and transformative work, even with just some top-up from that $400 million. We would be able to do some work in Su

Foreign Affairs committee  Who was the question for?

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm so sorry; I didn't hear the first part of your question. Maxime, would you answer that, please?

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm going to ask my colleague Maxime Michel to answer that. She's our head of humanitarian and resilience programs.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. I think all of us know that COVID-19 outbreaks are devastating in every context, but they will not be anywhere more profound than for the two billion people who are living in fragile and conflict-affected settings around the world.

Foreign Affairs committee  It is on English. I can turn it off, if you'd like.

Foreign Affairs committee  Should I start again, or should I carry on?