Thank you for that. Thank you as well for reading my book.
That's a very good question, but I think probably the first statement you made does not say “legal” mechanisms. I think what we were arguing for in that book was that we need to go beyond self-regulation, that self-regulatory initiatives are incapable of ensuring, in any systematic way, that companies do not become complicit in violations of human rights.
The second statement you read was that the home state has an important role. We were arguing in that book, and I think it's a really important thing, that if we are going to start to change the human rights impacts of business, then home states need to start regulating their corporations when they're operating overseas. That would entail, as I said to MP Vandenbeld, having a comprehensive legislative framework that ensures there are preventative measures in place but also effective remedial mechanisms for private actors.