I want to quickly come back to a comment you made earlier, Ms. Macklin, about this being no more or less than a mechanism. We agree. We're talking about a mechanism for CSR accountability. Canada's very engaged in this. We all know about OECD guidelines, Equator Principles, International Finance Corporation mechanisms for accountability, and so on.
What I'm concerned about is that you said the minister has a mechanism to dispense with frivolous claims. What I find distressing about the scenarios that I see developing is just exactly what we see at the table today, where you have very vexatious allegations being made about a company, about who's responsible for what's going on there, about who's the victim and who isn't. Then you bring in a case involving a state itself that is now retracting on international obligations, investments, and contracts, and is taking back property, for example, that they had already committed to a project, thereby undermining its viability.
How do we expect our minister to be able to act quickly in a state like that, where witnesses may be intimidated and where allegations and who is actually accountable are not simple to sort out? Are we not then dragging the reputation of our state into the face of another state that may very well not appreciate that? We have mechanisms we're working on. Why not allow our CSR counsellor to take that position, rather than bringing the minister of the crown into this conflict to try to resolve something that may not be resolved quickly?