Thank you to the witnesses for their service to Canada.
The numbers are staggering for the problems in the extractive sector in Latin America. I have a couple of numbers here, but one I thought was extraordinarily staggering was that the ombudsman's office in Peru got 177 social conflicts in one month, July 2017, and 73% of those were derived from the extractive sector, so there is cause for concern.
Of course, there are a lot of players in the extractive sector, not just Canada, but Canada makes up 50% to 70%, so it is a large player.
Mr. McMullen, you said we expect diplomats to speak up when they see something they think is not right. Do they record those interactions when they think something isn't right? Is there a record of those, of how many interactions they have had and commenting on the way Canadian companies operate?