In a press release launched late Thursday, La Caisse strongly rejects the allegations towards it and says that allegations and details have to be corrected.
“For one, nearly all of investments within the corporations talked about will not be instantly managed by La Caisse. They’re managed by intermediaries or are held by way of commonplace merchandise supplied to all buyers. Moreover, La Caisse holds a really small share of shares in these corporations, which limits its capability to instantly affect them. In precise truth, it owns lower than 0.1% of nearly all of the businesses recognized,” the assertion reads.
“The remaining are largely multinationals, resembling Reserving, Airbnb or Alphabet (Google), which might be obtainable and used everywhere in the world and owned by a lot of buyers. As well as, when La Caisse can not train direct affect to encourage finest practices, it does so by way of Federated Hermès, a globally acknowledged service supplier specialised in shareholder engagement. We count on all of those corporations to satisfy the very best requirements wherever they function.”
“Lastly, La Caisse want to reiterate that it has additionally ceased any new engagement in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. La Caisse additionally reaffirms that it acts always in full compliance with all necessities of Canadian legislation and can proceed to behave in accordance with worldwide requirements on this matter wherever it operates. La Caisse takes its duties as a world investor very critically and is dedicated to proceed working in keeping with the very best requirements of human rights.”
Albanese has been accused by the US Mission to the United Nations of constructing “false and offensive claims” which it says replicate “malignant antisemitism” and has referred to as for her elimination, however the lawyer doubled down on her allegations Thursday as worldwide representatives to the UN met in Geneva to debate the report.
