Thank you.
Thanks also to our guests.
Mr. Raymond, the committee notes your recommendations on Bill C-300, An Act respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries, including the one about removing the reference to yourselves. I read your 2009 report on responsible investing. In your opening remarks today, you tell us that you intervened last year specifically in Guatemala, Burma, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Your words were: “[...] to encourage improved transparency and risk management strategies.”
Mr. Raymond, can you provide the committee with copies of those letters as well as the responses from the companies, if any, and tell us if you have done any follow-up with those mining companies? I would like to know who does this follow-up, how it is done, if the companies move forward, and, if not, what you see as the next step.