As it relates to existing customers, that's a very different type of relationship, and that's what I was speaking about with respect to monitoring. Then it's a very different situation and that gets us into the discussion that the professor was mentioning around leverage and remedy. As a financial institution—and our human rights policy is very clear on this point—we want to understand, is there an item.... If we are made aware of a situation, of course we're going to reach out to the company and start a dialogue with them. We're immediately going to understand if we can use leverage if there is a severe human rights impact to ensure the company is addressing it. It's not an immediate withdrawal of support because that may not help the impacted parties the most. It is an assessment at that point as to whether EDC has enough leverage to make a difference to the remedy.
On March 23rd, 2021. See this statement in context.