Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I have lived and worked with environmental and human rights defenders affected by Canadian mining companies in the Philippines since 1988 and in the last 22 years with MiningWatch Canada as Asia-Pacific program coordinator. I first testified before this committee in 2005, toget

Foreign Affairs committee  If I could answer on both the question you posed to me and this question, just briefly—but I will put it in my brief in more detail—if we're just looking at the issues of sanction and remedy, this bill does not deal with remedy. What we ultimately will need in Canada at one point

Foreign Affairs committee  Let me answer that question this way. If the government had actually honoured and respected the consensus recommendations that came out of the round table process, I would be very comfortable in going forward in a process that reflected those recommendations and said, let's wait

Foreign Affairs committee  I was one of the members of the advisory group, so I helped shape the context of the round tables; I participated in all of the round tables and was very much involved in the drafting of the final report, which we signed on to. In that context, I would like to say that one of th

Foreign Affairs committee  Maybe what I'll do is I'll skip over the further cases I have and just come to my concluding remarks.

Foreign Affairs committee  Let me first highlight that I believe we have come to an important consensus with industry. The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada notes that many countries lack the governance and institutional capacity to enforce legislation and to ensure a stable regulatory regim

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and my thanks to the members of this committee for providing us this opportunity to speak to you today. In 2008, John Ruggie, the United Nations special representative on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprise