Well, as my dad always used to say, if Bob jumps off a cliff and if Julie jumps off a cliff, are you going to jump off a cliff too? I think we really need to think about what it could possibly mean to increase our involvement in a country where these kinds of human rights abuses are happening.
Are we saying “don't engage with Honduras at all”? No. What we're saying is that if you're going to ride the bike, wear a helmet, because there are many, many human rights violations occurring currently that, certainly from my perspective, I would find to be quite a risk.
As you can tell from our recommendations, PEN has no opinion on who Canada really does trade with. What we're concerned about is that, in the work Canada does in the countries we engage with, we shouldn't be making the situations worse. In fact, we should be safeguarding the lives and the rights of the people of Honduras, as well as, in the process, really thinking about what Canadian values are and what kinds of values we want to be promoting abroad.