Unfortunately, at the international level, there is often a great deal of corruption and the police continue to behave violently towards women, as they do here.
Any indigenous opposition to the mining companies is ignored. We are asking for indigenous peoples to be consulted when a mining company begins operating on their land so that the development process can go smoothly. That's not what we are seeing at the moment.
Canada needs stricter legislation for companies. There are, unfortunately, serious shortcomings in this respect. Canada is becoming a paradise for the mining companies because there is so little regulation. It really needs to do something about it.
We also talked at length about changes that were needed from the environmental and sustainable development standpoint. It's important to think about how best to extract primary resources and rare earths.
In our discussions about climate change, we really need to reconsider how we use the land, and our idea of progress, which encourages methods that are really destroying our land. We need to draw inspiration from the methods used by the people of the First Nations to protect their lands.
Thank you.