International Trade committee  That case has been extremely well documented. It's an incredibly important case. That's the case against Goldcorp, in which Goldcorp was asked by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to cease operations because of the concerns the commission had for the human rights abus

International Trade committee  Just briefly, there's a major argument right now that in order to have the energy transition that we need, we have to do more mining. We would really oppose that idea. There will have to be some new mining, but there needs to be far, far more recycling and technology developed, f

International Trade committee  There are a number of things. To answer your immediate question, no, we still cannot access that information. In fact, I've just recently been in touch—we are constantly in touch—with embassies. When we find human rights or environmental abuses, we very often alert embassies. We

International Trade committee  I think it's really important to know that the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability, which has over 40 member organizations across Canada, created draft legislation, and that draft legislation was for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence. It was adopted

International Trade committee  I'm not sure on the exploration side. It's certainly on the exploitation side, yes, on the major projects that our mining companies are operating overseas.

International Trade committee  Yes. As I said, I'm not aware of exploration companies that are supported by Export Development Canada, but I am aware that we have run into companies that have been supported by EDC that are actually mining and exploiting mines.

International Trade committee  Let me just answer two things. First of all, in my presentation I gave an awful lot of a variety of both environmental and human rights issues and I named many countries. All of those have actual cases behind them, and we will be providing a brief with far more information. Ye

International Trade committee  No. We do not believe she does, because she still does not have the powers, five years after her office was created, to compel witnesses and compel documents. That was something that the Government of Canada recognized as critically important, and it committed that she would have

International Trade committee  Diplomatic support to Canadian mining companies operating overseas through the trade commissioner service is ongoing in all cases that we're aware of. There's a really big problem of accountability there as well. There is something called an integrity assessment or agreement th

International Trade committee  Thank you for that question. Yes, that's going back a ways. I think it's a very important question, because in 2018, the Government of Canada made a commitment, in the creation of the Canadian ombudsperson for responsible enterprise, that this officer would have the investigator

International Trade committee  I don't know if it was put in for political reasons, but what I do know is that when we participated in that body, it became very clear very quickly that the issues that really needed to be dealt with—the fact that the CORE needed to have the powers that she needed, the fact that

International Trade committee  It was definitely a broken promise. It was more than a promise; it was a commitment. This was actually publicly stated by the Government of Canada. At that time the minister was François-Philippe Champagne, and the commitment was made very publicly. In fact, when the commitment

International Trade committee  MiningWatch Canada was a member of the MSAB in a back-up position.

International Trade committee  Thank you. Since 1999, MiningWatch Canada has been working with mining-affected communities and indigenous peoples struggling to protect their human rights and their environment from egregious impacts and abuses by Canadian mining companies operating in Africa, Latin America and

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, I want to briefly say that when we think about the situation that has just been described to us, we see that Canada intersects in this reality in the Philippines in at least two ways: through our embassy, which is not doing enough to protect people, even people who come to t