Thank you.
We don't know whether the businesses that we monitored or that our partners have talked to us about have received funding. It seems to me that, in previous testimony, you were given more concrete information, particularly on Barrick Gold Corporation and its mining operations in Argentina or Papua New Guinea.
The studies and testimonials we receive come in almost every day. As soon as we meet with partners, whether it be in Central America, Africa or Asia, who work on human rights, the rights of peasants and aboriginal communities, the Canadian mining companies are always denounced as a major problem.
We conducted a more in-depth study with our partner Caritas Tegucigalpa on a case in Honduras, and the findings made with the support of scientists from Great Britain and our partner CAFOD are really distressing: 14 water sources were completely dried up by the operation of that mine. We found levels of arsenic and cyanide in people's blood, which necessarily condemns them to a future of malformations and various types of cancer. The evidence is well substantiated.
All our partners in the south tell us that this is the problem they're facing. That's why Development and Peace has conducted a three-year campaign for a Canadian legal framework to control the activities of these businesses.