First of all, let me try to answer your question about the translation. I do apologize. There is a written text, but it is still being translated. I have been told that a copy will be distributed to the members of the committee by the weekend.
I'll speak in English because I'm going to refer back to my notes.
As I made it clear, I don't believe there's any contradiction at all between the remarks that I presented and Mr. Andrews' remarks. We both agree that host countries' governance capacity can be improved. So we're both on exactly the same page as far as that goes.
I did not suggest that giving countries assistance to enforce their own laws is somehow a violation of their sovereignty. On the contrary, I encourage the Canadian government to continue to pursue that policy, which they have set out to do. My comments were that Bill C-300 does not actually provide them with assistance to increase their governance capacity. It couldn't do that as a private member's bill, as it can't allocate the funds. What Bill C-300 tries to do is something else, which is it tries to actually set laws that apply in other countries, and that is a different thing.
In terms of whether I live on the same planet as everybody else, there was a distinction in my remarks between laws and the degree to which they are enforced. In terms of the laws, I can refer you to a survey, and it's referred to in my written submission, on 32 jurisdictions around the world. It's a summary of their laws, including many countries in Africa and poorer countries. It describes the detailed laws, including environmental, labour, and other standards, that are applied in those countries. Now, there is a distinction, as I mentioned, between the laws in the books and the degree to which the government officials have the technical capacity, political ability, and financial ability to enforce those laws. If that is what the issue is, the solution to it is to provide them with the assistance to do that.