Certainly.
I'm not going to speak for my colleagues around the table, but I'm feeling a little less than satisfied that we're getting to the root of some of the concerns regarding the grave human rights abuses we've heard about in this country. I'm not sure that we're getting to the root of that issue with some of the answers that you're providing. This is something that we're exploring in this committee, and we're also looking in our foreign affairs and international development committee at our countries of focus and issues of international development assistance, international trade, and human rights.
In 2014, Canada signed the Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement. In the preamble, there was a commitment to honouring and abiding by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I'd like to hear from you about how these issues are affecting our trade relationship with this country, with a touch more depth in respect of what we can do, and maybe some thoughts on the road ahead.
We've heard that things are getting worse, not better, certainly as it relates to the murder of a human-rights defender. The human-rights defender of the year 2015 got shot in Honduras. We have activities there. They're a country of focus. Can you provide some perspective on this for us?