International Trade committee  There is quite a wide variety. As in Canada, you have your major mainstream media, and some television stations are more mainstream than others. There are radio stations. There are newspapers. There is community radio, and there are other types of social communicators, so it's qu

International Trade committee  I think it's a combination of both. I think certainly Honduras suffers from a severe lack of resources. But one of the major questions we had in our report is how those resources get allocated. Is it truly a lack of resources, or is it a selective allocation of resources? And in

International Trade committee  We just need to look at the national police force, which has been undergoing decades of what they call “purification” with very little success. One of the things that we detail in our report and one of the people we spoke with was the individual responsible for the police purific

International Trade committee  I think as a threshold matter what we want to emphasize is that the fact that there are inadequate investigations in Honduras makes it quite difficult to establish who's ultimately responsible for crimes against journalists. But our report examines a couple of things, including t

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. On behalf of PEN Canada and the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, I want to thank the committee for this opportunity to present on Bill C-20. I will be sharing my time with Tasleem Thawar, the executive directo