No, sir. I was referring to the centralization of the benefits and the decentralization of the risks, and making no attempt to relate them in any other way.
Our study was not intended to look at the entire Colombian economy or the entire Colombian conflict. It was intended to look at the specific case of Canadian investment in the extractive industries, and in particular in mining, and to look at the human rights risks that could have been implicit in this activity.
I think the important conclusion is that we could not find a mechanism of ensuring that a Canadian mining investment could be made with any sense of security that there was no previous violation of human rights, that the investment would not be potentially supporting people who had engaged in human rights violations, potentially encouraging them to continue that activity, and reinforcing their position, or that the land tenure of the leases, the mineral leases and so on, could be assured to be conflict-free--in other words, that they in good faith....
We did find the best of intentions, shall we say, in those mining companies' activities. We could not find that, with good faith, purchasing land and securing mineral leases, they could ensure that those titles were all clean and clear, if you will.