Foreign Affairs committee  That's right.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't know the exact details of that. We did meet with Gildan when we were in Bangladesh. Typically, a Canadian company setting itself up in a country would become part of the Canadian community—there's a Canadian executive running Gildan in Bangladesh—and would generally be i

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, I would agree. I think that the industry is doing this itself, but we are overseeing this. As I mentioned, our high commissioner is one of the advisers keeping an eye on the accord as well. We remain very much engaged. It's a top priority of the High Commission Dhaka, and wa

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. We can provide the exact numbers to you separately, but a relatively small level of funding has gone into those two initiatives for those who were injured. The private sector is more involved in that area. You can ask other witnesses about that. In terms of the trust fund,

Foreign Affairs committee  It's a local database of I think almost 4,000 factories. The one thing they haven't met, which we keep pushing through our high commissioner and our high commission, is that they are not noting in that database which factories have been inspected. That's something we've been aski

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm a little surprised to hear that, Mr. Chairman. We can verify that with some data as a follow-up to this testimony. I do want to point out, though, that the Rana Plaza disaster has brought to the world's attention—including companies sourcing in countries such as Bangladesh—t

Foreign Affairs committee  I wanted to add that the government, through the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, working for the accord and the alliance, has already begun inspections of structural integrity and fire electrical safety at hundreds of factories. The database that Mr. Nankivel

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, in response to that very good question I'd like to say that our position is that the Canadian private sector and the international private sector have a right to choose the vehicle. The Retail Council of Canada has done a very good analysis of the differences between t

Foreign Affairs committee  I think if you speak to Loblaws, they do believe that the private sector has a right to go in either direction. They've made their choice and are taking a leadership role of some sort.

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair and honourable members, you have heard from my colleague Duane McMullen about how the Government of Canada promotes corporate social responsibility, or CSR, globally. I will now outline for you how the Government of Canada responded to the collapse of the Rana Plaza bui