Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses. I believe you've all underscored the importance of having full and comprehensive hearings and hearing from the aboriginal community, hearing from labour movements, hearing from human rights groups. We have yet, as a committee, to hear from the Colombian labour movement, except from the government-sponsored unions, which by their own admission represent less than 10% of what's left of unionized workers in Colombia. I think you've all stressed for the record, and hopefully all members of this committee have heard you loud and clear, that there shouldn't be any closure or cutting off of witnesses. We should have full and comprehensive hearings.
I wanted to ask Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Neve a question around social responsibility. There's no doubt that SNC-Lavalin has a very good reputation, and many Canadian companies operate in a socially responsible manner, but there are Canadian companies that do not. That's part of the debate around Bill C-300, sponsored by my Liberal colleagues, that you have companies that have caused and have been part of human rights violations and environmental violations in places like Central America, South America, and Africa.
You're certainly aware of these violations. Do you not think that it besmirches Canada's reputation overall when companies operate that way? And does it not, in your case, Mr. Blackburn, give you pause when you have report after report after report saying that this agreement could well contribute to Canadian companies being even more complicit in the kinds of human rights violations we're seeing in Colombia?
Now, that wouldn't be SNC-Lavalin, but I'm saying there are bad apples, and Canada has a responsibility, and the Canadian Parliament has a responsibility, to ensure that Canada's reputation is not besmirched abroad.