In Haiti 70% to 80% of the people are renters, so what we need to find is a balance to strike between the landowner and the tenant, because the shelter that we build is given to the tenant, but it is on the land of the owner. Our shelters can actually be taken apart and moved, but we want to create a sense of community. We're building back where people used to live. We get agreements between the landowner and the tenant; we have teams of lawyers and notaries who draft an agreement together to say that we are allowed to build a shelter on this land for a certain period of time, sometimes for three years, sometimes indefinitely. They can still rent the land part, but the shelter belongs to the tenant.
Land rights are an extremely difficult and complex issue. I'll just give you an example. An international federation tried to lease a piece of land, and they had almost signed the cheque when three other owners showed up.
There is no working land registry system, and a lot of land is held by few individuals in Haiti. To create businesses and to create property rights, what governments could do--and not just the Canadian government--is really push the Haitian government to créer un cadastre, to put a land registry system in place, because that's one of the main issues for businesses to be located there and for resolving the landlord-tenant issues as well. That is a major impediment.