International Trade committee  The third review.... The first time there was no consultation, and the second time there was a very limited online consultation that most groups only found out about after the fact, not during the time. So this is the third experience of the review, and I just described to you

International Trade committee  He is a well-known and very popular blogger, an independent journalist, really, in Vietnam. There's strongly state-controlled media in Vietnam. Over the last few years, there's been a vibrant community of alternative journalists who have tried to open up independent space for tha

International Trade committee  I think that there could be a significant improvement in the dissemination of information. I do want to highlight that this, of course, is not a recommendation we simply make to Canadian business. Amnesty pursues this globally because we very much agree that, when it comes to hu

International Trade committee  That report you heard was actually based on our report of today, so I know it very well. The China situation, I think, is very interesting. We do this every year. We release what we call the annual death penalty statistics. Obviously it's a grim report. We used to include China

International Trade committee  For us, we work by international fair trial standards. It's all enshrined in international human rights treaties.

International Trade committee  It differs from country to country. Some countries don't allow Amnesty on the ground. China doesn't allow Amnesty researchers on the ground.

International Trade committee  Those are three countries that we do have access to. In fact we have an Amnesty International team that's on the ground in Vietnam right now.

International Trade committee  As I said, we work by international standards that governments themselves have set out in international human rights treaties and those are quite detailed.

International Trade committee  We're certainly not doing it by ourselves. There's a wide sector. There's the trade union movement, many civil society organizations, religious groups, human rights organizations, that have called for this approach of, number one, enshrining human rights obligations in the deal i

International Trade committee  I want to be very clear that Amnesty International, be it with respect to Colombia, and again with what we're saying today regarding the TPP countries, is not saying do not trade, do not do business. In many respects we don't have a position one way or the other on that particula

International Trade committee  Well, the real answer to that is an entire lecture that I deliver, which obviously you don't have the time to hear. But it's safe to say there are some very well-developed methodologies, including those by UN experts, that are now well accepted and recognized as providing a compr

International Trade committee  Sure, I could do that.

International Trade committee  With the Canada-Colombia deal it isn't so much that there's a parallel agreement. What we have is a secondary addition to the deal. It happened quite late in the process and it was added both to the deal itself and also to the implementing legislation, which is of course very imp

International Trade committee  Not only Amnesty International but many organizations spoke out and expressed considerable disappointment that there was such a limited consultation period and that it wasn't even publicly announced in any respect. You'd have to have had the wherewithal to find the announcement d

International Trade committee  To my knowledge there was no group that felt it would have been able to put something together in that short a period of time.