The report focuses on how each can use the tools at their disposal to promote human rights, identifies legal obstacles to the use of these tools, and proposes reforms to increase their impact. These measures are intended to ensure that Canadian businesses operating abroad are promoting, rather than inhibiting, international human rights. See also id ., p. 49. US business leaders are quick to espouse this view in their dealing with China. In Canada, Prime Minister Chr tien has often asserted a correlation between political liberalization and multinational investment in China, claiming that human rights are best promoted by open trade.
Trade reduces isolationism.
Trade also expands the scope of international law and generates the growth required to sustain social change and development. Asociety that depends little on trade and international investment is not open to the inflow of ideas and values.