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{
"time": "2023-06-19 20:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Sheri Meyerhoffer",
"fr": "Mme Sheri Meyerhoffer"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7903399\" data-originallang=\"en\">As I said, yes, I think the government would benefit from mandatory human rights due diligence. With that implemented, with consequences, that would allow the Canadian government to influence or punish corporate behaviour, so influence good behaviour, punish bad behaviour.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7903400\" data-originallang=\"en\">You will see in the official assessment we're going to do that we will be looking at particular entities in Xinjiang, which should, when we publish our report, give actors, such as investors and other companies looking at this, and the government, an idea of companies that Canadian companies ought not to engage with.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7903399\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme je l'ai dit, oui, je pense que le gouvernement b\u00e9n\u00e9ficierait d'une diligence raisonnable obligatoire en mati\u00e8re de droits de la personne. Si elle \u00e9tait mise en \u0153uvre, elle aurait des cons\u00e9quences qui permettraient au gouvernement canadien d'influencer ou de punir le comportement des entreprises, donc de favoriser les bons comportements et de punir les mauvais comportements.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7903400\" data-originallang=\"en\">Vous verrez que dans notre examen officiel, nous allons nous int\u00e9resser \u00e0 des entit\u00e9s particuli\u00e8res au Xinjiang, ce qui devrait, lorsque nous publierons notre rapport, donner aux acteurs, comme les investisseurs et d'autres entreprises qui se penchent sur la question \u2014 ainsi que le gouvernement \u2014 une id\u00e9e des entreprises avec lesquelles les entreprises canadiennes ne devraient pas faire affaire.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/canada-china-relations/44-1/22/sheri-meyerhoffer-20/",
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"source_id": "12307343",
"document_url": "/committees/canada-china-relations/44-1/22/",
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