I don't know if it was put in for political reasons, but what I do know is that when we participated in that body, it became very clear very quickly that the issues that really needed to be dealt with—the fact that the CORE needed to have the powers that she needed, the fact that we needed to start talking about legislation, mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence—were not going to be addressed in that committee.
There were lots of problems with the way it was set up, with the types of issues that were being proposed, and it was held in check very strictly by the secretariat. We had very little input on what was actually going to be discussed. When it became very clear that the ombudsperson was not going to be granted the powers that she needed to be effective, there was a resignation of all the civil society and union members.