Thank you, Mr. McKay.
The belief that Canadian companies can't be trusted I think is an overstatement, and it oversimplifies the situation here. I think that Canadian companies, in fact, with guidance from international law and human rights, would be better ambassadors internationally.
In fact, one of the key things here is that the standards of international law are manageable. One of the things that was referenced earlier was the voluntary principles. Two specific documents were referred to: the UN Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials and the UN basic principles on the use of force. These provide specific guidance on what excessive force would mean.
Within that sort of context, what this means is that companies would know that this is the standard: we need to use necessary and proportional force, but not excessive force. That's something that people who look at standards would be able to look at. Lawyers within companies would be able to make those sorts of decisions.
With those sorts of decisions, you would then be able to be better ambassadors about where to draw the line as a company, what's accessible, and what is not. Mining can be a productive way of developing a country and we all understand that. We're not saying that mining cannot be a very useful part of a development scenario.