I certainly can't comment on the Colombian flower industry, and I kept my comments focused on Canadian investment in the mining sector. Certainly I do think the report that was tabled in May was a bit of a “see no evil, hear no evil, say no evil” type of report.
Clearly my comments are based on the complaints and the evidence we've been gathering over the last number of years. We published a report of four case studies in the Canadian extractive sector in Colombia in 2009, together with Colombian partners that demonstrated evidence of forced displacement in repeated cases and serious threats to the livelihoods and lands of people living in different parts of the country. We knew we were just scratching the surface of what was going on and the potential that greater harms could come to pass, the harms I tried to emphasize to protections that could be put in place to remedy what has gone on and what could go on, obstacles that could be created with the free trade agreement.
My comments were coming from the sort of evidence we've been gathering. We were very disappointed to see that the government's not taking the indications seriously, to be able to deepen and create a baseline we could build on in the future.