Foreign Affairs committee  Monsieur Martin, thank you very much for your question about democracy, development, and corruption. I think you're right, corruption is such a huge phenomenon all over the world. It's not an African thing, it's not Latin American. We have seen what is going on in the United Stat

Foreign Affairs committee  If you want to discuss corruption, I can start us off straightaway.

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, allow me to add a comment in relation to the previous question on political parties. I have had the opportunity to observe certain aspects of Elections' Canada's work that, it has to be said, is indirectly linked to political parties. I am not going to speak on beha

Foreign Affairs committee  I hope that I will be able to provide you with a satisfactory answer. I am sometimes very surprised by Canada's decision not to intervene in certain countries. Let us take the example of Africa. In the 1990s, in light of the global context, particularly what was happening in Euro

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, I must apologize for an earlier oversight. I wanted to extend greetings from Janice Stein, the president of our board, who could not be with us today because, as you know, Yom Kippur is an important celebration. I would also like to introduce you to the vice-preside

Foreign Affairs committee  You'll give me one minute more.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I was trying to say that democracy has changed our world and that we can answer with a cautious yes the question of whether the world is moving towards acceptance of the global principle of democracy. I was making a grand tour of the world to indicate where

Foreign Affairs committee  I just said, Mr. Chairman, to Maureen that I would say that I'm in complete agreement with everything she said, but I may add two or three things. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. We are delighted to be here, and there are three reasons for that. The first one is that the top

Foreign Affairs committee  We have a budget of $450,000 for this year in Haiti.

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, it's a significant component, plus salaries. If we include everything, it would be $600,000.

Foreign Affairs committee  We're involved with direct programming in 12 countries.

Foreign Affairs committee  We have my colleague Nicholas full-time, and we have six Haitians who work for us in Port-au-Prince.

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, I agree with you. That's why I mentioned earlier that in this phase—and I won't repeat that for us this has profoundly changed, with the election—we have to rethink what we are doing with our NGO partners in Haiti. We have to stop working with each little group and try

Foreign Affairs committee  You force me to return to my wording. Maybe we have to be more severe with partners. We also have to take into account fully the fact that two years before the transition and in the last two years--which means in the last four or five years--all conditions were adverse for workin

Foreign Affairs committee  We have been there in the past—