Tuesday, on the sidelines of his participation in the 69th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, met with Christian Paradis, Canadian Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, around the cooperation between the two countries and development projects committed to assist the Haitian people.

Both men have explored new areas of cooperation, including public health, hydropower, and the opportunity for Haiti to benefit from the expertise of Hydro-Québec, as well as security in order to create favorable conditions for investment and job creation in the country.

The Head of Government also spoke in favor of direct budgetary support to the government, like the European Union and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in order to facilitate more projects in favor of the population and to accelerate the development in the country.

"The good news is that Canada is ready to continue its cooperation with Haiti, you know that in 2013 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-7564-haiti-reconstruction-canada-freezes-funds-for-haiti-confusion-and-reactions.html they were in a process of reviewing this helps, now Canada in the coming days, weeks, said that they will resume cooperation with Haiti. They had a cooperation with PNH I have shown them progress, crime down... we need to build more police stations, strengthen police workforce, we need to reach 15,000 police officers; all these things will be done with, these means were partially donated by Canada, we encourage them to continue, we encourage them to also continue in school canteens in the energy sector, especially in hydro energy at this level they said they would send a planning team with Hydro Quebec to establish the needs," declared Laurent Lamothe.

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