We are a mining union. We represent a lot of workers in mining, so we are supportive of development in Canada. We don't want it to happen as a result of a race to the bottom, or by degradation of environmental or human rights or labour regulations or standards. I want to make that clear.
Some of the things we're advocating for here will raise standards in other parts of the world in terms of human rights, environment, labour and so on. That's also a way of helping workers and development here in Canada, instead of saying, “Oh, we can make a bunch of profit abroad where there are lower standards,” or whatever it may be.
It's also important to tie into our trade strategy and foreign investment protection agreements that it should not be easy to import cheap products through trade deals that end up undermining Canadian development and employment, when it's just not attractive to do that here because we have higher standards.
I guess, just to sum up, we don't want to see a reduction in standards here as a way of doing that.