One would hope that an effective ombudsperson's office would have the confidence of impacted communities and workers to be able to come and bring complaints and seek redress, that the ombudsperson's office would look into those cases and would be able to establish and see patterns of harm, patterns of concern, and make tailored recommendations not only to prevent harm, but also to remedy it, and recommendations to the Government of Canada in terms of law and policy reform in the future so that there are no continuing complaints 10 and 15 years from now.
In 2005, the foreign affairs subcommittee studied this issue and made recommendations that have still not been implemented. Impacted communities have been waiting eons for the Canadian government to do something meaningful. We finally got there in 2018, and it is a shame that this commitment is being rolled back now and that once again we're seeing that the Government of Canada is turning its back on impacted communities and workers who desperately need a place to go.