Thank you, Mr. Obokata.
In your “End of Mission Statement”, you acknowledge that Canada has enacted several policies in recent years that encourage Canadian businesses to protect human rights. One of those policies includes the establishment of the Canadian ombudsperson for responsible enterprise, or CORE; the revisions of Canada's responsible business conduct strategy and code of conduct for procurement to reduce the risk of forced and child labour; and the adoption of transparency legislation that requires companies to report on measures to address child and forced labour in the supply chain.
You also mentioned in your statement that Canada should expand the independence, powers and mandate of CORE. Can you be more specific in what ways you would expand CORE?