International Trade committee  No, I don't have that off the top of my head.

International Trade committee  I'm not sure. You can look at our annual report. It's very transparent in that regard.

International Trade committee  You can just go to our website. They're all posted there.

International Trade committee  I think the Canadian government would do better to focus on creating some strong regulations to provide more significant oversight of the overseas mining industry, rather than focusing on promoting these sorts of investment agreements, which do not have any significant mechanism

International Trade committee  I don't think whether this agreement is in existence or not is going to make a difference in whether or not there is Canadian mining in Panama.

International Trade committee  I believe I provided three examples. We have seen some significant improvements in terms of independent environmental oversight with regard to the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories. We have seen some significant advances in the nature of the impact benefit agreement

International Trade committee  I believe that you're referring to Inmet Mining. Unfortunately, there are a lot of contradictions in that company's statement. Specifically, that company has a very strong public relations campaign that uses the concept of corporate social responsibility, but its actions demonstr

International Trade committee  MiningWatch Canada is a public interest initiative that came together in 1999. We're composed of environmental, social justice, indigenous and union organizations from across the country. We came together to coordinate a public response to the impacts of the mining industry on co

International Trade committee  What mining operations in Panama and around the world have we supported? In what fashion? I don't understand.

International Trade committee  The conditions for mining in many parts of the world right now have been seriously eroded by the implementation of mining code reforms over the last number of decades that do not make serious efforts to ensure protections for the environment, for water, and for community rights.

International Trade committee  The way the free trade agreements have been designed so far shore up protections for industry rather than for the collective rights of affected communities and workers, unfortunately, and unfortunately the labour and environmental side agreements do not provide binding measures o

International Trade committee  Not that I am aware of, and I might highlight that some of our trade agreements have been implemented at times when there has been significant violence in which Canadian mining companies have been involved. Such was the case of Peru, where some 33 indigenous people and police off

International Trade committee  These are stronger tools for companies to assert protection over their investments. The strongest tool they have is access to international arbitration tribunals. It costs, for both them and states, millions of dollars to have their disputes heard. Affected communities and public

International Trade committee  No. We share a similar concern. The Panamanian government has not shown the will to consistently apply environmental measures and protections within the country. I think one good example of this is how it has dealt with the protected area in the district of Donoso within the Meso

International Trade committee  The environmental protection was the link. There were significant protests following Law 30, which is referred to as the “sausage law”, because they tried to jam so much into it. Protests at the time actually resulted in some significant repression. Environmental protections i