Canada did ratify the convention, and did rather quickly do so. We do not as yet have the Government of Canada's first report to the United Nations. Having signed, they are obligated within two years to provide that report. We're still awaiting that.
Our disappointment here is that we do not have two things.
We do not seem to have a strategy for how we're going to move forward and use this document, in which people from around the world came together and said that this is the new vision, that this is the way forward. We don't seem to have a strategy. Yes, as new policy initiatives are going forward, we believe in some cases they're being measured against the convention, but we don't know that there's a strategy going forward.
The second thing is that in this convention it's different. It's the first that obligates governments to name a monitoring body, to name someone who will monitor that implementation. We had hoped that would be the Canadian Human Rights Commission, but that has not come about. There has been no naming of a monitoring body in Canada, and that monitoring body, according to the convention, must meet the Paris principles. The only body in Canada that would meet that would be the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
We continue to work with the commission, with departments and officials, hoping for some outcome of about eight years of work into language in the convention, and as yet we're not seeing that realized.