No, no, this is why it's great to have a dialogue and the opportunity to have this conversation. As I said, I think we see a trade agreement as one of many policy tools we can use to promote gender equality here at home and around the world. The ombudsperson, who will lift the bar here for Canada on corporate accountability, I think is a great move. The international assistance policy is another great move. We believe integrating a gender dimension into the labour chapter, but also as a gender chapter in trade agreements, is a really important first step.
One of the key reasons we're advocating for this is that while we agree absolutely with our colleagues from Amnesty, who encourage more support for women's rights organizations or human rights organizations on the ground in these countries, we believe we need to start tackling the systemic inequality in the economic system. If we make this a side deal or a side issue, we're going to continue to perpetuate this gross inequality that Francesca mentioned. In the report we launched around Davos at the World Economic Forum just two weeks ago, 82% of the world's wealth that was created last year went to the top 1%, while the bottom 50% of the population received absolutely no increase in their wealth. Part of that is because billionaires are continuing to accrue a huge amount of wealth, and a lot of that is on the backs of the poorest workers in the world, many of whom are women.
Integrating and doing whatever we can to support human rights and women's rights abroad is absolutely key. We see a trade agreement as a key way to start to tackle this systemic inequity that we see in the economic system.