Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, in a community where their human rights, environment, and livelihood are impacted, the first instance is to go to their local community and complain about it. But these complaints are not being redressed. The current economic framework of these countries is that the

Foreign Affairs committee  Let's take the case of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance in the northern part of the Philippines. Olympus, a Canadian mining company that is doing exploratory activity there, is not following environmental standards. But in the Philippines, you cannot expect the government to enfor

Foreign Affairs committee  No, it's okay.

Foreign Affairs committee  We have a KAIROS partnership coordinator for Latin America, and Colombia is one of our priority countries with regard to human rights and also resource extraction. I'm not very familiar with our work in Colombia in that area, but I know that just two weeks ago partners from La

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair and members of this committee, good morning. KAIROS, Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, unites 11 faith-based organizations and seven denominations. It works for social justice here in Canada and overseas. One of the key areas of our work is supporti