In our book we document in particular the role that you can find in embassy communiqués about what Canadian embassies spend most of their time doing in countries in Latin America with large mining industries. That is doing the groundwork and promotion and facilitation of Canadian mining investment, which as I've documented has led to extraordinary extraction of value, rather than input into the communities on the ground. Therefore, there would have to be a radical reorientation of the commitments of embassies, and obviously the commitment of Ottawa, in the promotion of Canadian mining corporations' profitability over and above the record of human rights, sociological degradation, and so on. I think that has to be the priority, and not the return of profitability. That's the key question for me.
On September 28th, 2017. See this statement in context.