I think you'll have the opportunity to ask representatives from MAC and PDAC later on tonight. I can only speculate and suspect—I mean, they're speaking up for their members, as we would speak up for our members—that at the end of the day, they don't want more oversight, to be frank about it. They would prefer a voluntary approach to all of these human rights issues.
We do want companies voluntarily to take their human rights obligations seriously. Many of them do, as you said, but some don't. We can't rely on a voluntary schema to address the companies that don't. Let me just give you one example, without naming any names.
There's a Canadian mining company in Mexico where last year workers voted to join a truly democratic independent union, Los Mineros. What's remarkable is that the Canadian company, a silver mining company, refused to recognize the results of that election. That's despite the fact that the Mexican regulatory authority gave representation rights to Los Mineros and despite the fact that the President of Mexico insisted publicly that the company comply with the law. The operations of that mine are suspended right now. The company is losing money each day.
The question in the context of the CORE is what does that matter. Well, when I look at that, I see a Canadian company that's willing to stare down the President of Mexico. I can't imagine a company like that being willing to voluntarily co-operate with the CORE. This is a mining company that plays hardball. A CORE that is in that kind of situation needs to be armed. It needs to be ready to be able to engage with that company from a position of strength. That's not the CORE we have right now.