Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I'll answer quickly because I think you also wanted Mr. Ferri to jump in. There are a couple of things. First of all, I'll say that our position has always been that removing intellectual property barriers was one part of the solution. I think it ha

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. Unfortunately, I can't speak specifically to the CARE report because it's their data, their analysis. What I can say from what we have seen throughout the COVID pandemic is that it has been very much along these lines, and there has been clearly a di

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely. In our programs everything we do is done on the basis of a needs assessment. We are an impartial organization. We provide medical assistance on the basis of need alone. A fundamental starting point for any medical intervention that we do is a needs assessment to

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for having us. Doctors without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, has been on the front lines of responding to medical needs created or worsened by armed conflicts, natural disasters and disease epidemics for more than 50 years. This

Afghanistan committee  Just so I understand your question, are you asking when was the last time we met with a minister?

Afghanistan committee  We haven't met with a minister, I don't believe, since the election. It would have been sometime in late 2021.

Afghanistan committee  Yes, we would agree. Obstacles need to be removed to ensure that humanitarian organizations are able to do their work and respond to needs on the ground.

Afghanistan committee  I will ask my colleague Ms. Flokstra to respond, please.

Afghanistan committee  I want to reiterate that our activities in Afghanistan are privately funded, so our perspective on this is slightly different from organizations that are receiving Canadian government funding. MSF is unique in that situation and slightly different. However, with regard to Canada'

Afghanistan committee  Certainly. We will make a written submission to the committee, but we want to emphasize—and I think several witnesses have spoken about this—the impact of sanctions and anti-terror laws and how these sanctions and anti-terror laws, as they apply in Afghanistan, need to be placed

Afghanistan committee  I'm happy to answer the question. We maintain a line of dialogue with the Canadian government through Global Affairs Canada on a variety of different humanitarian crises, including in Afghanistan. As part of our mandate, we share information on unmet humanitarian needs and try t

Afghanistan committee  As I said, it's a very standard open dialogue with the sharing of press releases, the sharing of information on unmet humanitarian needs, on realities that we were seeing on the ground. There was dialogue with Global Affairs throughout the summer and the fall, and that's ongoing.

Afghanistan committee  I'll ask my colleague to answer that question, please.

Afghanistan committee  Thank you for having us at tonight's hearing. Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, is an international medical and humanitarian organization that has provided exclusively independent, impartial and neutral humanitarian assistance since 1971 in a manner cons

International Trade committee  We would emphasize that Canada actually acted quite quickly in enacting domestic legislation that gave the Canadian government the ability to issue compulsory licences. This happened early on in the pandemic. This was prior to there being any vaccines or therapeutics that were ap