Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I prefer that we express thanks.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If we wanted to eliminate the gang leaders in Haiti, we would not need to send anyone in, since I have seen on the news that it is possible to eliminate Al Qaeda people from the comfort of one's balcony. When I look at the situation in Ukraine, I see that it is not really the Uk

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Keep in mind that 40% of the economy of Haiti depends on transfers from the diaspora. The Haitian diaspora, particularly in Canada, is therefore extremely important, since it directly supports the economy of Haiti. Everyone knows someone who is suffering insecurity, be it a famil

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Canada has invested in aid programs, including for democratic development. Canada makes a practice of doing that. The rules have to be changed, because the people who are in power in Haiti and are leading the country are people my age, 60 or 65 or 70 years old. Those people have

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The first part of your question was whether this was a request or an order. I would like to remind you that before the Ariel Henry government carried out the order, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, was the second person to say that Haiti

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think the key word in your intervention is “road map”. The government of Haiti has asked Canada—well, the UN asked Canad—to take leadership with a military intervention in Haiti. In fact, I believe Canada has already taken that leadership. The thing is that Canada has not made,

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everyone. How can we talk about human rights when democracy in Haiti is still at the starting gate? Since the fall of the Duvalier regime in 1986, Haiti has known only very short periods of democracy, too short for a culture of democracy to