Over the past 10 to 20 years or more, mining companies, including Canadian ones, have often been accused of human rights violations in Africa and elsewhere. This is a major problem.
Canada created this office, which has tremendous potential to investigate these allegations but doesn't currently have the tools to do so. We would like Ms. Meyerhoffer to have those tools. She herself has said in recent months that she needed the tools to be able to conduct these investigations fully. Otherwise, the results are not conclusive.