Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being with us this morning.
I'm going to begin with Ms. Meyerhoffer from CORE.
You identified that in January 2018, the federal government announced the creation of a Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise, and there was also the creation of the advisory board on responsible business conduct. You indicated that the office has essentially been up and going since 2021. You set up your office in 2019.
My question to you is this: Was CORE established on a template of what other countries are doing? What are CORE's role, mandate and powers, compared to those of other countries? For example, what does China do? What does the United States do? What do some of our largest trading partners do in this regard?