Foreign Affairs committee  I don't want to discount the possibility of the CSR counsellor having some positive impact, but my main concern is with the entirely voluntary nature of any activities she engages in with respect to companies saying they'd rather not. The second concern is that even if through th

Foreign Affairs committee  I went from London and worked with partner organizations in Papua New Guinea. We also had members of our staff in London who were working on the case, but in terms of those who went from London to Papua New Guinea, it was myself.

Foreign Affairs committee  I would say approximately seven or eight people are involved in the case in one degree or another.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't have that information with me. I'm not sure that I could actually provide you with any accurate figure on that.

Foreign Affairs committee  I would say it's much lower than that.

Foreign Affairs committee  Keeping in mind Amnesty International obviously works on a very meagre budget relatively, and certainly our wages are not so high, so....

Foreign Affairs committee  In what sense...?

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, in the context of the Papua New Guinea cases we've been looking into, we work with local partner organizations who are also non-governmental organizations that derive their own wages.

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, certainly one of the things I mentioned just before was that, as I understand it, Bill C-300 is intended to do away with vexatious and false claims, that there is a requirement of due process in Canada, and that clearly this process that is suggested under Bill C-300 would

Foreign Affairs committee  As I understand it--

Foreign Affairs committee  I believe there are two distinct differences between the Canadian counsellor and what is proposed under Bill C-300. One is that the counsellor hasn't actually got, within the scope of what she is undertaking, a requirement to articulate what the guidelines are the company would b

Foreign Affairs committee  Specifically, on the Amnesty International case report, which I believe you do have a copy of, we first raised our concerns in May of last year. The first instance in which the police went in to burn down the houses right next to the Porgera underground operations occurred on A

Foreign Affairs committee  They were both. Amnesty International conducts its research both from the context of having researchers who are based in London, as well as working with local partner organizations.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, we did.

Foreign Affairs committee  Very importantly, the bill makes room for vexatious and unfounded claims to be dismissed. I understand that under administrative law in Canada there is a well-established body of law regarding the need for administrative decisions to be consistent with jurisprudential requirement