OTTAWA — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit Haiti Monday and Tuesday to meet with its leaders and take stock of the quake-ravaged country's needs, his office said Sunday.
"Prime Minister Stephen Harper will travel to Haiti on February 15 and 16 to assess the humanitarian situation on the ground and discuss the process of rebuilding the country," the prime minister's office said in a statement.
Harper, it added, "will discuss with Rene Preval, President of Haiti, and Jean-Max Bellerive, Prime Minister of Haiti, the challenges of the relief effort and Haiti's reconstruction priorities."
The Canadian head of government "will also meet a number of Canadians who are delivering humanitarian aid on the ground" in Haiti.
The January 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas killed at least 217,000 people, including 29 Canadians, with another 63 Canadians still unaccounted for, Canada's foreign affairs department said on Friday.
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