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Getting home will become a lot more complicated for residents of 33 University Ave.

The 28-storey financial district condominium is the only residential building slated to be stuck inside a fenced security perimeter when the G20 summit touches down in Toronto next month.

The only way in and out will be through police checkpoints.

“It’s definitely an inconvenience,” said Duyen Briggs, who lives at The Empire Plaza at University Ave. and Wellington St. “I guess that week I’ll feel like I’m going to be blocked inside my house for a while.”

As security details for the G20 summit continue to trickle out, downtown residents and businesses are beginning to understand how their lives will be affected.

Empire Plaza residents discovered over the weekend their homes will be enclosed within a security fence expected to go up about two weeks before the summit opens at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on June 26.

Residents will have to apply for advance security clearance to receive a special ID card to gain express access to their building.

The general public will be allowed to enter the fenced-in area — the borders of which haven’t yet been disclosed — but will be subject to on-the-spot security checks by police and will have to explain why they need to enter the area.

Councillor Adam Vaughan, whose ward will be home to the summit, said anyone living or working behind the fence should preregister with police to receive a swipe card with photo ID to bypass the public line, where the queue for admission could be several hours long.

Todd Reid, an Empire Plaza resident, said he will get the accreditation if it means skipping the long lines.

“If the wait’s only five or 10 minutes, I can deal with that,” he said. “It’s hard to say. We’re pretty much still in the dark.”

The building’s property manager said there are still many unanswered questions, and what he does know, he’s had to piece together from different sources.

“We’ve somewhat been left to fend for ourselves to try to get as much information as we can,” said Wes Posthumus, president of Post Real Property Inc.

“There hasn’t been one decisive document that says, ‘Hey, this is what it’s going to be like, this is what it’s going to look like, this is what you’re going to be subject to during that 10-day or whatever period of time.”

Among the many questions residents have is how — or whether — they’ll be able to access the underground parking garages.

While the Empire Plaza is currently the only residential building behind the fence, security plans can change and more buildings could be affected, Vaughan said.

“We’ve been working very hard to make sure that the residents of our ward have as much freedom during the G20 as possible,” he said.

Police say three security zones will surround the summit:

• A heavily restricted “red zone” will include the convention centre and nearby hotels. Only summit attendees and venue employees will be able to get in.

• The fenced security perimeter, which includes The Empire Plaza and contains 15,000 to 30,000 residents and workers who will be vetted by police at checkpoints.

• A traffic zone will comprise the area from Yonge St. to Spadina Ave. and King St. to Lake Ontario. Pedestrians will be able to come and go, but drivers will be met by officers at most major intersections who will ask them where they’re going and what they’re doing there.

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Its five-per-cent annualized growth rate was the strongest in nine years, said Statistics Canada Monday.

This surge of growth, which eclipsed the 3.3 per cent advance expected by the Bank of Canada, was “astonishing,” said Yanick Desnoyers and Marco Lettieri, economists at the National Bank.

You might call it a good news/good news joke.

First, there was the good news analysts expected; a rebound in our depressed exports helped by the revival of Canada’s auto industry from its near-death experience earlier in the year allowed trade to contribute to growth instead of subtracting from it.

But there was more. The other good news the news that blew way past expectations was an explosion in home construction and renovation, noted Peter Buchanan, an economist with CIBC World Markets.

Stimulated both by a recovery in housing demand and by government tax breaks for home renovations, residential investment shot up at a 30 per cent pace, its biggest jump in 24 years.

In fact, practically everything was moving in the right direction during the quarter, pushing a key measure of economic health, final domestic demand, ahead at a vigorous 4.6 per cent rate, faster than in any other G7 nation.

That makes Canada’s recovery less fragile than in most other rich nations, said Capital Economics, a British consulting firm.

Final domestic demand attempts to measure a country’s own homegrown economic growth, excluding the effect of trade and inventory adjustments which can be volatile enough to distort the figures at times like this.

For example, U.S. growth in the fourth quarter appeared to be even stronger than Canada’s, at 5.9 per cent, until you noticed that inventories accounted for about half of this growth.

Inventories all the stuff that companies keep on the shelf and in the warehouse tend to expand when times are improving, but to be cut back sharply when times are tough.

During the deep recession last year, many firms laid off workers and cut production of goods to an absolute minimum, conserving cash by running down inventories instead. Retailers also tried to keep stocks lean.

Such a deep cycle of inventory cutting slashed economic growth sharply for most of last year.

But when the cutting slows and eventually reverses, there’s an mirror-image surge in growth until levels of inventory return to normal.

It was the beginning of this inventory boost which is nice, but only temporary that was such a big factor in U.S. growth in the fourth quarter.

In Canada, though, inventory cutting continued apace in the same period, leaving more solid, demand-driven activity accounting for this country’s rebound in growth. Our inventory boost might be beginning about now.

Before we get too euphoric, however, it’s important to note that most analysts think Canada’s growth rate must slow later in the year. First, the housing market is clearly overheated and will cool as interest rates rise something that could begin as soon as July after this strong growth report.

Second, a slowing of rapid U.S. growth will exert a drag on further export gains.

Still, Canada’s growth could settle down to a still-healthy rate around three per cent to 3.5 per cent, predicts economist Diana Petramala at the Toronto-Dominion Bank.

And the boost in the fourth quarter seems likely to persist into the first quarter, which ends this month. Economic growth in December was significantly stronger than expected, which boosted the starting point from which growth began in this quarter.

Already, we’ve seen the benefit of strong fourth-quarter growth in the job market, which added about 90,000 positions during the period. That strength persisted in January, which saw the creation of another 43,000 jobs.

As a result, Petramala, who had expected to see the unemployment rate remain around 8.3 per cent as discouraged workers returned to the job market, offsetting the employment gains, now thinks job growth could be strong enough to let unemployment edge as low as 8.1 per cent in the next month or two.

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After struggling to achieve takeoff last summer, it turns out that Canada’s economy blasted ahead in the fourth quarter at a pace that defied all expectations.

Its five-per-cent annualized growth rate was the strongest in nine years, said Statistics Canada Monday.

This surge of growth, which eclipsed the 3.3 per cent advance expected by the Bank of Canada, was “astonishing,” said Yanick Desnoyers and Marco Lettieri, economists at the National Bank.

You might call it a good news/good news joke.

First, there was the good news analysts expected; a rebound in our depressed exports helped by the revival of Canada’s auto industry from its near-death experience earlier in the year allowed trade to contribute to growth instead of subtracting from it.

But there was more. The other good news the news that blew way past expectations was an explosion in home construction and renovation, noted Peter Buchanan, an economist with CIBC World Markets.

Stimulated both by a recovery in housing demand and by government tax breaks for home renovations, residential investment shot up at a 30 per cent pace, its biggest jump in 24 years.

In fact, practically everything was moving in the right direction during the quarter, pushing a key measure of economic health, final domestic demand, ahead at a vigorous 4.6 per cent rate, faster than in any other G7 nation.

That makes Canada’s recovery less fragile than in most other rich nations, said Capital Economics, a British consulting firm.

Final domestic demand attempts to measure a country’s own homegrown economic growth, excluding the effect of trade and inventory adjustments which can be volatile enough to distort the figures at times like this.

For example, U.S. growth in the fourth quarter appeared to be even stronger than Canada’s, at 5.9 per cent, until you noticed that inventories accounted for about half of this growth.

Inventories all the stuff that companies keep on the shelf and in the warehouse tend to expand when times are improving, but to be cut back sharply when times are tough.

During the deep recession last year, many firms laid off workers and cut production of goods to an absolute minimum, conserving cash by running down inventories instead. Retailers also tried to keep stocks lean.

Such a deep cycle of inventory cutting slashed economic growth sharply for most of last year.

But when the cutting slows and eventually reverses, there’s an mirror-image surge in growth until levels of inventory return to normal.

It was the beginning of this inventory boost which is nice, but only temporary that was such a big factor in U.S. growth in the fourth quarter.

In Canada, though, inventory cutting continued apace in the same period, leaving more solid, demand-driven activity accounting for this country’s rebound in growth. Our inventory boost might be beginning about now.

Before we get too euphoric, however, it’s important to note that most analysts think Canada’s growth rate must slow later in the year. First, the housing market is clearly overheated and will cool as interest rates rise something that could begin as soon as July after this strong growth report.

Second, a slowing of rapid U.S. growth will exert a drag on further export gains.

Still, Canada’s growth could settle down to a still-healthy rate around three per cent to 3.5 per cent, predicts economist Diana Petramala at the Toronto-Dominion Bank.

And the boost in the fourth quarter seems likely to persist into the first quarter, which ends this month. Economic growth in December was significantly stronger than expected, which boosted the starting point from which growth began in this quarter.

Already, we’ve seen the benefit of strong fourth-quarter growth in the job market, which added about 90,000 positions during the period. That strength persisted in January, which saw the creation of another 43,000 jobs.

As a result, Petramala, who had expected to see the unemployment rate remain around 8.3 per cent as discouraged workers returned to the job market, offsetting the employment gains, now thinks job growth could be strong enough to let unemployment edge as low as 8.1 per cent in the next month or two.

Its five-per-cent annualized growth rate was the strongest in nine years, said Statistics Canada Monday.

This surge of growth, which eclipsed the 3.3 per cent advance expected by the Bank of Canada, was “astonishing,” said Yanick Desnoyers and Marco Lettieri, economists at the National Bank.

You might call it a good news/good news joke.

First, there was the good news analysts expected; a rebound in our depressed exports helped by the revival of Canada’s auto industry from its near-death experience earlier in the year allowed trade to contribute to growth instead of subtracting from it.

But there was more. The other good news the news that blew way past expectations was an explosion in home construction and renovation, noted Peter Buchanan, an economist with CIBC World Markets.

Stimulated both by a recovery in housing demand and by government tax breaks for home renovations, residential investment shot up at a 30 per cent pace, its biggest jump in 24 years.

In fact, practically everything was moving in the right direction during the quarter, pushing a key measure of economic health, final domestic demand, ahead at a vigorous 4.6 per cent rate, faster than in any other G7 nation.

That makes Canada’s recovery less fragile than in most other rich nations, said Capital Economics, a British consulting firm.

Final domestic demand attempts to measure a country’s own homegrown economic growth, excluding the effect of trade and inventory adjustments which can be volatile enough to distort the figures at times like this.

For example, U.S. growth in the fourth quarter appeared to be even stronger than Canada’s, at 5.9 per cent, until you noticed that inventories accounted for about half of this growth.

Inventories all the stuff that companies keep on the shelf and in the warehouse tend to expand when times are improving, but to be cut back sharply when times are tough.

During the deep recession last year, many firms laid off workers and cut production of goods to an absolute minimum, conserving cash by running down inventories instead. Retailers also tried to keep stocks lean.

Such a deep cycle of inventory cutting slashed economic growth sharply for most of last year.

But when the cutting slows and eventually reverses, there’s an mirror-image surge in growth until levels of inventory return to normal.

It was the beginning of this inventory boost which is nice, but only temporary that was such a big factor in U.S. growth in the fourth quarter.

In Canada, though, inventory cutting continued apace in the same period, leaving more solid, demand-driven activity accounting for this country’s rebound in growth. Our inventory boost might be beginning about now.

Before we get too euphoric, however, it’s important to note that most analysts think Canada’s growth rate must slow later in the year. First, the housing market is clearly overheated and will cool as interest rates rise something that could begin as soon as July after this strong growth report.

Second, a slowing of rapid U.S. growth will exert a drag on further export gains.

Still, Canada’s growth could settle down to a still-healthy rate around three per cent to 3.5 per cent, predicts economist Diana Petramala at the Toronto-Dominion Bank.

And the boost in the fourth quarter seems likely to persist into the first quarter, which ends this month. Economic growth in December was significantly stronger than expected, which boosted the starting point from which growth began in this quarter.

Already, we’ve seen the benefit of strong fourth-quarter growth in the job market, which added about 90,000 positions during the period. That strength persisted in January, which saw the creation of another 43,000 jobs.

As a result, Petramala, who had expected to see the unemployment rate remain around 8.3 per cent as discouraged workers returned to the job market, offsetting the employment gains, now thinks job growth could be strong enough to let unemployment edge as low as 8.1 per cent in the next month or two.

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Canada will beat out average G7 economic growth this year and next, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday.

The global economy is bouncing back from negative territory quicker than expected and will grow 3.9% this year, the IMF said in its World Economic Outlook.

Vigorous growth in Asia combined with surprising strength in U.S. consumer demand led the IMF to revise its October growth projection of 3.1%.

But, the IMF said, the recovery is proceeding at different speeds in different countries and advanced economies remain “sluggish.”

Canada is considered part of that slower pack with estimated growth coming in below the world average at 2.6% for the year. Still, however sluggish, economic growth in this country will outperform other advanced economies, such as the U.S., U.K., Euro area and Japan, which as a group will see average growth of 2.1%.

The pace of recovery Canada should pick up steam in 2011 at 3.6%.

The problem for Canada and other industrialized economies is a heavy reliance on government stimulus measures.

“For the moment, the recovery is very much based on policy decisions and policy actions,” said IMF Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard in an IMF video interview.

“The question is when does private demand come and take over.”

Financial markets have rebounded since the lows of last March and risk appetite has returned but that could take a turn for the worse as policy makers seek to unwind unprecedented stimulus measures, the IMF said.

In the past, the IMF has warned of a double-dip recession if anti-crisis measures are withdrawn too soon and without a thorough exit strategy. In Canada, the Conservative government plans to turn the taps off on the $62-billion federal Economic Action Plan by year’s end.

High unemployment rates, rising public debt and weak household balance sheets in some countries also present further roadblocks to recovery, the IMF said.

In Canada all three of those barriers to growth exist with unemployment hovering around 8.5% and the average Canadian carrying a record household debt to income ratio of 140%.

Bank reform also needs to be tackled head-on in many countries to address issues of impaired assets, restructuring and potential market bubbles, the IMF said.

“Policymakers will also need to move boldly to reform the financial sector with the objectives of reducing the risks of future instability and rethinking how the potential fallout of financial crises would be borne in the future, while at the same time making the sector more effective and resilient.

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Canadian immigration officials are warning members of Montreal’s Haitian community to be wary of companies promising to help accelerate the immigration process for their loved ones affected by last week’s earthquake.

For a second day in a row, hundreds of Montrealers have queued in front of the Montreal offices of immigration consulting firm Immigration International 911 Inc.

The law firm has offered its assistance, purportedly free of charge, to those hoping to help family members come to Canada. The group has even advertised on a local Haitian radio station touting its services.

Style Léon was among those who had been waiting in the lineup which began forming around 5 a.m. on Tuesday.

Léon wants to sponsor her husband and mother-in-law who are in the area affected by the earthquake.

“They have nowhere to go,” Léon said. “They’re on the street, and … [she] is diabetic.

“There is no food, there is no water, there is nothing,” Léon said.

The federal government has promised to accelerate the process for those seeking to sponsor family members  but the process is confusing, Léon said.

“Everybody’s telling different things, different papers, different documents. But we don’t really know what’s going on.”

Officials asked to intervene

Montreal-based immigrant and refugee groups said they hoped the authorities would intervene to protect any potential victims of fraud.

“In these times there are unfortunately always certain individuals … who try to take advantage of the situation,” said Rivka Augenfeld, the head of a Quebec coalition of refugee and immigrant groups.

Augenfeld said she could not comment on the specific case of Immigration International 911 Inc., except to say what she saw “is to be deplored.”

“We don’t know who it is because if you go on their website there is not one name to be read,” Augenfeld said.

No one from Immigration International 911 Inc. was available to comment Tuesday.

Immigration officials have previous knowledge of the company, said Albert Deschamps, Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s regional director general for Quebec.

“We’re quite concerned with the way people have been showing up at this consultant,” Deschamps said. “We’re hoping that they are not hearing from this firm that [the firm] can actually accelerate the process of immigration applications because that is not the case.”

Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has said the government will speed up the process for immigrants from Haiti, but immigration consultants cannot push the process along any faster, Deschamps says.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has travelled to Davos, Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum, where world leaders will brainstorm the best way to combat the current financial challenges facing the global economy.

Harper will spend the next day and a half in Davos, where he will mingle with business executives, other world leaders and academics at the annual agenda-setting conference.

While the forum will see leaders debate a number of topics — including disaster aid in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti — the focus clearly remains on the global economy, at a time when employment remains high and governments are becoming less inclined to bail out troubled banks and industries.

In a statement released Tuesday, Harper said his government will stick to its stimulus plan and will continue to fight forms of trade protectionism, as it previously committed to doing.

On Thursday, the prime minister will address the forum and reveal his agendas for the upcoming G8 conference in Huntsville, Ont., and the G20 conference in Toronto.

In his Tuesday statement, Harper said he will push to improve the health of women and children at the G8 summit — a cause he believes is of increased importance in the aftermath of the global recession.

Citing statistics that suggest a half-million women die during pregnancy or childbirth each year, Harper said there is a “pressing need” for action, especially when such mortality can be avoided through better nutrition and medical treatment.

“This is simply not acceptable. The United Nations had hoped to reduce the number of deaths related to pregnancy by 75 per cent by 2015 as part of its Millennium Development Goals. It now appears this target will go unfulfilled,” Harper said.

“What makes it worse is that the bulk of the deaths during pregnancy — experts claim as many as 80 per cent — are easily preventable. There is a pressing need for global action on maternal and child health.”

As for the G20 summit, Harper plans to highlight the need for member countries to reform their banking systems in harmony and to continue with stimulus until worldwide labour markets have fully recovered from the global financial crisis.

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Toronto is poised to have one of the fastest-growing city economies in 2010, says a new study from the Conference Board of Canada.

In a report released Wednesday, the private think tank projected 3.5 per cent growth in Toronto’s economy, mainly led by a rebound in construction and manufacturing.

“Manufacturing output is expected to increase in Toronto this year for the first time since 2005,” it said in a news release.

Of the major Canadian cities, only Vancouver is poised to grow faster, with 4.5 per cent growth projected. The main driving factor there is the 2010 Winter Olympics, which begin on Feb. 8. But consumer spending and housing construction are also expected to be strong.

Vancouver’s economy had declined by 1.8 per cent in 2009.

However, Kitchener is predicted to have the third-highest growth, with 3.3 per cent expansion. Better manufacturing prospects are being credited.

The good news in Ontario extends to other cities hard-hit by the recession and longer-term manufacturing woes.

Oshawa is predicted to have 3.2 per cent growth in 2010. “After two years of declining GDP, Oshawa’s economy will benefit from the worldwide recovery now underway, especially in its key auto manufacturing industry. Housing starts are expected to double from 2009 levels, which will boost the construction sector,” it said.

Hamilton has seen its economy shrink since 2007, but three per cent growth is projected for this year.

“The manufacturing and construction downturns in the (Hamilton) CMA appears to have hit bottom — in fact, manufacturing output is expected to grow for the first time in eight years,” it said.

Windsor has taken some of the hardest knocks of any city in the country in the past few years, yet the news is also good there.

“Windsor’s economy can expect to grow for the first time in four years. An improved auto outlook and a combination of higher housing starts and non-residential projects will lead to growth of 2.6 per cent in 2010,” it said.

London should see 2.5 per cent growth, but that won’t be enough to offset its job losses of 2009.

St. Catharines-Niagara is expected to post the first growth in manufacturing output in a decade, and its housing market should recover from a five-year slide. This should lead to 2.4 per cent growth.

Sudbury should see 2.6 per cent growth, but that is put in doubt by the continuing strike at Vale Inco.

Thunder Bay has seen its economy decline for the last four consecutive years. Its economy is only expected to grow by 0.8 per cent. “Although the ‘old’ economy (particularly forestry) continues to struggle, diversification into medical technologies is expected to start paying off,” it said.

Ottawa-Gatineau is expected to grow by 3.2 per cent while Kingston should grow 2.5 per cent. The public sector in both places helped those cities dodge the worst of the recession, it said.

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Seven medical doctors top the list of inductees into this year’s Order of Ontario, including the wife of a freshly minted cabinet minister.

Dr. Samantha Nutt, a co-founder of the charity War Child Canada, received the honour Monday just one week after her husband, Dr. Eric Hoskins, was

sworn in as Ontario’s minister of citizenship and immigration.

Six other medical doctors besides Nutt were also inducted this year.

They are: Philip Berger, an expert in urban medicine, addiction and homelessness; cancer specialist Helen Chan; Kellie Leitch, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon; James Orbinski, a founder of Doctors Without Borders; diabetes researcher Mladen Vranic; and Anne-Marie Zajdlik, a family physician and AIDS activist.

In a letter thanking Lt.-Gov. David Onley for adding her name to the prestigious list of winners, Leitch wrote of one of her patients, Emma Healy.

“I understand I was nominated for this award by Emma for my work,

along with my colleagues, in developing the Paediatric Surgery Department at the Children’s Hospital of Western Ontario,” Leitch wrote.

“Emma is a brave, 14-year old girl on whom I performed a significant surgery. Emma knows that having the Paediatric Surgery Department in London will help ensure that patients like her will not have to travel great distances from home to access vital medical services.”

Sports and media mogul Paul Godfrey, broadcaster Ken Shaw and Levente Diosady, whose work with food process engineering has helped to remedy iodine deficiency around the world, were also honoured.

“It’s an award I was surprised to receive and I’m delighted,” Godfrey said. “How could you not be?”

Godfrey, recently picked by Premier Dalton McGuinty to chair the Ontario Lotteries and Gaming Corporation, is president of the National Post, a former Toronto Sun executive and president of the Toronto Blue Jays. He was also once chairman of the now-defunct Metropolitan Toronto.

Former Scotiabank president Peter Godsoe and businessman Lawrence Bloomberg made the list for philanthropy, while writer Jacques Flamand, arts patron Shirley Thomson and actor and director Diana Mady Kelly made it for contributions to the arts.

The order was created in 1986 to recognize the highest levels of achievement in any field.

Onley will invest the new members of the order on Thursday.

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OTTAWA-Twenty-four Haitian orphans stepped off an Air Canada A330 on Sunday into frigid cold to begin new lives in Canada.

The children, ages 9 months to 11 years, were wrapped in blankets and whisked into the Canada Reception Centre.

They are the first wave of some 180 expected to be approved for adoption by Canadian families. As the children, some walking and others carried, disembarked expectant parents peered out the window to get a glimpse of their newest family members.

The children were given stuffed toys and Red Cross blankets.

“This is just to make them feel a little bit better when they get off the plane. Many of them left Haiti with nothing,” said Alison Frehlich, a Canadian Red Cross spokeswoman.

There were 86 people on board the special flight. Besides the orphans, the passengers were Haitian-Canadians evacuated from the earthquake ravaged country.

The new and repatriated Canadians were given the chance to pick out winter jackets provided by the Salvation Army.

Jean Robert Vaval of Montreal added to his already large family by adopting 14-year-old Jordan Noel.

“With my wife and the kids we are going to be nine,” he said.

Vaval runs a creole restaurant in Montreal and invited the media for a meal.

“It’s a happy day,” he said, beaming.

The good news in Canada came amid more bad news in Haiti. The confirmed death toll from the quake has topped 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area alone, the country’s communications minister said Sunday.

Communications minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue told said that the figure is based on a body count in the capital and outlying areas by CNE, a state company that has been collecting corpses and burying them in a mass grave north of Port-au-Prince. It does not include other affected cities such as Jacmel, where thousands are believed dead, nor does it account for bodies burned by relatives.

At a news conference in Ottawa, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said that since the Haitian government has officially declared that the search and rescue phase over, the focus has turned to repatriation of the remains of Canadian victims.

“We are working as quickly as possible through a number of complex logistical issues … related to identification and proper documentation of individuals,” Cannon said.

He said the number of Canadian fatalities had risen by one to 19 and added that 213 Canadians are still missing. Some 2,327 individuals have been evacuated and another 60 are waiting for flights home, he said.

Cannon and Prime Minister Stephen Harper were due to meet with Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive in Ottawa on Sunday afternoon.

Their meeting comes in advance of a meeting of international diplomats Monday in Montreal to sketch out the early plan for the rebuilding of Haiti.

“We need to arrive at a common understanding and commitment on certain basic principles of responsibility, accountability and long term engagement,” Cannon said.

“We need to identify with the Haitian government key priorities in order to define a road map of the tasks ahead,” Cannon said.

Bellerive said the rebuilding will take “lots of money.”

“In time we will put the population to work so that we can be independent (of aid) because the Haitian population is a proud population that is used to working,” he said in Haiti, before boarding a flight to Ottawa.

He said the government was working as fast as possible to reopen the factories and create employment in the aftermath of the quake.

“We have received great help. We have fallen to the ground but we will get up again. We’re not dead. We’re going to get up and rebuild another Haiti,” Bellerive said.

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