Climate change is definitely a huge gap in the current human rights legislation.
As I mentioned earlier, the refugee convention does not recognize climate refugees. It doesn't recognize people being displaced for climate reasons. The guidelines on internal displacement do, but again, those are for citizens who would already have the right to be in those countries anyway, so this is a huge gap.
I believe we had a missed opportunity in the global compact on refugees. This was a time when the international community could have come together and could have decided to include climate as part of the issues, but it was not addressed. I think the reason was that countries are worried about the number of people who will then have claims to come to Canada and other places on the basis of widening a definition of protection in this context.
But climate change is here. It's real. I mean, you're in B.C.; we just saw the scenes happening there. We're affected in Canada, especially in indigenous communities, but we also will be affected by people who are fleeing this displacement elsewhere. I think we need to seriously come up with some kind of plan, globally but also nationally, to address it.