I think it's becoming more and more of an accepted practice, especially for public pension funds. We need to have ethical practices. I'm thinking of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, the federal funds and those of the other provinces, like the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. People are starting to adopt ethical practices more and more, including environmentally conscious ones. I wouldn't call it a fad, because you can still make money with an ethical approach to investing.
It always gets a bit more complicated in the private sector. In Canada, we don't have a lot of legal constraints in this area, but I believe we shouldn't be shy about it and there are ways, likely through legal frameworks, to shine a light on certain practices that we consider contrary to our values and the democratic spirit. That said, we need to be careful, because they can be seen as extraterritorial laws.
We can rely on existing rules or treaties with respect to forced labour, for example. Increasingly, these issues are starting to be covered by a number of the treaties that Canada and many other countries are part of. We can use these treaties to say that we need to be careful and that investments are not appropriate if, for example, they're involved with the Uighur labour camps. I feel we can go pretty far in cases like that and even block certain products produced in systematic violation of human rights.
I feel there's some consensus emerging from our international treaties that we could build on to have a somewhat stronger policy on human rights in trade.
I hope I've answered your question to some extent.