Let me answer that question this way. If the government had actually honoured and respected the consensus recommendations that came out of the round table process, I would be very comfortable in going forward in a process that reflected those recommendations and said, let's wait with something regulatory or something legislated; let's let this have a chance to work.
The government's response did not honour or respect the consensus recommendations that were reached. In fact, it's really our opinion that the government's response reflects two years of lobbying by industry, and things that we could not reach consensus on during the round table recommendations—things that industry asked for but that they did not get consensus on—are things that came into the government's response.
What we as civil society now very much feel needs to happen is to go back to the original document that started this process, which was a 2005 report from this committee. That report very clearly recognized the problem and said that there needs to be legislation and legal reform in Canada. This addresses the two things that John Ruggie has so clearly identified as lacking globally, which are the options for sanction and for remedy. All of us in Canada, if we are hurt or harmed by a corporation in Canada, can go to the courts. We can have sanction; we can have remedy. That's not the case for so many people around the world where our companies are operating.
We're so disappointed with the government's response that we have gone back to say that this is not going to work. There's too much power within this industry to influence government processes such as the one we became involved in in good faith. What we really need is a chance to give the option for sanction and remedy to people around the world.