[Technical difficulty—Editor] bridges, and not only in the extractive sector. It was a very extensive fact-finding trip that we made. It was 10 days of listening and hearing about 200 to 250 testimonies in the countries, ranging from governments and various agencies to civil society leaders, business and industry associations, and then human rights defenders overall. We try to clarify information on specific cases that have been presented to us as symbolic, as an example of problems that happen on the ground.
In the case of Peru and Brazil, where we have conducted this research, we didn't find any difference among investments from different countries. All investments from the different origins of capital or headquarters of companies are put in the same basket. Basically, good companies and those that behave properly and diligently are put in the same basket with the ones that don't.
In the case of Mexico, it was different. It was pointed out to us all the time that the Canadian mining companies were the bad companies in the cases that were raised with specific names. That didn't happen in Brazil and Peru.
What people normally say about foreign investors and big-scale investments is that the normal expectation is that they act as if they were at home, not to a lesser standard. The normal expectation is that if you have a standard that your company applies at home, you'll do the same wherever you go. Don't abuse or take advantage of the fact that local conditions in many aspects are desperate or that the capacity of the government to enforce or even have legislation is limited by capacity or corruption or any other factor.
You can read our reports. Of course we have many references in them, and we are very open and eager to engage with you at any time in the future. We made some specific recommendations to Canada when our preliminary report was presented. Our final report should be done by April next year. It is a bit longer.
The recommendations were basically to strengthen what you have already, which is a very good basis but not sufficiently well implemented, especially in some provinces of Canada but more often out of Canada. You have uneven behaviour among your Canadian-listed companies in Latin America but also in other places of the world. We listened basically to the same thing. Our finding is that you should push your standards up so as to put more emphasis on implementation and on monitoring effective implementation.