HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
35th PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION

EVIDENCE

Standing Committee
on

FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Chairman: Bill Graham

Meeting No. 53

Tuesday, November 19, 1996

ORDER OF THE DAY:

An examination of Canada's future participation in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti.

APPEARING:

Honourable Lloyd Axworthy, Minister of Foreign Affairs;

Honourable Don Boudria, Minister of International Co-operation and Minister responsible for the Francophonie.

WITNESSES:

Canadian International Development Agency:

Denis Beaudoin, Chief of Operations, West Indies Division, Americas Branch; Stephen D. Free, Regional Director, Caribbean Program, Americas Branch;

Huguette Labelle, President. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade:

Philippe Cousineau, Desk Officer, Haiti and Dominican Republic, Caribbean and Central

American Relations Division;

Michel Duval, Director, Regional Security and Peacekeeping Division.

Department of National Defence:

Rear-Admiral James A. King, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy and Communications.