Thank you.
I think you get the sense that there is a great deal of anticipation around the government's legislation on forced labour. This was something that I think all the parties were pushing for in the last election. More needs to be done. I hope we see that legislation very soon. I hope we have sufficient time in this Parliament to really study it, analyze it, amend it and sink our teeth into it, and that we don't get into the situation we're sometimes in where the government waits until the last minute and then says that we have to pass this quickly without sufficient review or else it won't get done.
Again, that's up to the government, not up to you, but I want to put it on the record and to state our position. We are very much hoping to see that legislation include procurement and action by the government as well as by the private sector. It's not reasonable, it seems, for the government to say that private companies should do certain things in terms of combatting forced labour, yet not be required to do the same itself. Government should be leading by example, in the requirements around government procurement and government action as well.
We've seen government entities being really behind on this, and maybe a good place to go in terms of a question is the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board investing in companies like Dahua and Hikvision, which are operating and producing technology that is used in the repression of Uighurs. I know CPPIB falls under the authority of the Department of Finance, but I wonder if the witness can comment on the impact on Canada's reputation of our pension fund investing in technologies that are facilitating, I would argue, this kind of abuse.