There are a number of opportunities and fora for bringing forward information about what Canadian extractive companies are doing, and Canadian and other civil society organizations make use of those fora. Some of them are international, some of them are national, and so on, and we're doing that.
Again, we have to remember who these people are and what's happening. Often their physical safety is jeopardized. They're often indigenous people, they come from rural areas, they're economically and politically marginalized. To marshal the time, the resources, and the energy to submit another complaint, and possibly to travel to Canada to give testimony and so on before a forum where they have no expectation or hope that anything will change, is nonsensical. It makes far more sense for them to continue to use other fora, as flawed as they may be, but that has brought us to the point where we are right now. The fact that we're in the Parliament of Canada discussing this issue means that those fora have had some influence and some success, and, to me, that makes far more sense.
We've had bad experiences with the National Contact Point here in Canada, which is another complaints mechanism that was set up by the government. People, including my organization, filed complaints, marshalled resources, gathered testimonies and affidavits, and it has been entirely unhelpful. People are not persuaded that this would be any different, and they don't want to spend valuable resources testing it out.