The whip of the Reform Party also claimed that there should be a free vote as we judge our confidence in the Speaker based on the Chair's performance during your tenure, Mr. Speaker, since your election by the House a few years ago.

A recent Human Rights Watch report, “The Dark Side of Green Growth,” pointed to major shortfalls in the SVLK system, particularly its inability to protect against land tenure rights abuse as the audit process does not guarantee that permits were issued by the government on land without pre-existing land claims or that companies compensated communities for lost land or obtained free, prior and informed consent before beginning operations.

'4a. Biofuels and bioliquids taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1(a), (b) and (c) shall not be made from land-based raw material unless third parties’ legal rights regarding use and tenure of the land are respected, inter alia by obtaining the free prior and informed consent of the third parties, with the involvement of their representative institutions'.

'4a. Biofuels and bioliquids taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 shall not be made from land-based raw material unless third parties’ legal rights regarding use and tenure of the land are respected, inter alia by obtaining the free prior and informed consent of the third parties, with the involvement of their representative institutions'.

As was confirmed by a member of the Groupe de recherche sur les activités minières en Afrique, or GRAMA, when he appeared before the Standing Committee on International Trade, they could not find a mechanism of ensuring that a Canadian mining investment could be made with any sense of security that there was no previous violation of human rights, that the investment would not be potentially supporting people who had engaged in human rights violations, potentially encouraging them to continue that activity, and reinforcing their position, or that the land tenure of the leases, the mineral leases and so on, could be assured to be conflict- ...[+++]free.

The manner in which the principle of security of tenure is applied may vary from one tribunal to another, but as soon as an organization fulfils a judicial function, this characteristic must be present, at least during the period of time that these individuals perform their duties within this organization, so that they can work free of any interference or threat of interference.