We did not find a direct link between any Canadian companies and any specific acts of violence. We did find the potential that this could be the case and we could not exclude it. And we did not find that either the actions of the Canadian government, the Canadian embassy, or the companies themselves were sufficient to preclude that association.
There are mechanisms that have been developed internationally—the voluntary principles being one—that look at the use of military and former military personnel as private security. Not all of the actors were even aware of these mechanisms; still less were they implementing them.
That, I think, is a fair summary of what we found, but the paper goes into this in much more precise detail.