Thank you for your question.
Highlighting that question of credibility is absolutely vital here, because when we highlight the failure, whether it's a failure due to the complexities—which are not insurmountable but are complexities posed by federalism—or whether it's more widely the fact that, unfortunately, governments across the country, especially when it comes to economic, social and cultural rights, still have a reticence to truly recognize and embrace them as legally enforceable rights, the credibility concern is that we're seeing, therefore, a failure to address vitally important human rights issues at ground level across Canada.
However, we're also seeing a weakening of Canada's voice on the world stage because our diplomats and our civil society representatives want to be pressing other governments to do much more to live up to their international human rights obligations, often in countries obviously with much more serious and pressing human rights concerns, but if we're not taking those obligations seriously and if we're not putting mechanisms in place to make sure that we get the work done, then what right do we have to be pointing the finger and offering advice to those other countries?
Yes, there is a credibility gap.