Similarly, the Liberals released a letter about the mining sector during the 2015 election that noted, "a Liberal government will set up an independent ombudsman office to advise Canadian companies, consider complaints made against them and investigate those complaints where it is deemed warranted." Trudeau's government waited nearly four years to set up Canada's Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) to supervise Canadian mining companies' international operations. The ombudsperson had yet to take on a single case by the end of 2019. CORE's initial six-year budget was slightly more than one million dollars annually and the Liberals appointed a former oil lobbyist, Sheri Meyerhoffer, as the initial ombudsperson. All 14 union and NGO representatives on the government's "multi-stakeholder advisory body on responsible business conduct" resigned in May 2019 after their concerns about the ombudsperson were disregarded.

— House of Mirrors by Yves Engler (Page 157)