In an announcement launched late Thursday, La Caisse strongly rejects the allegations towards it and says that allegations and information have to be corrected.
“For one, the vast majority of investments within the firms talked about aren’t straight managed by La Caisse. They’re managed by intermediaries or are held via customary merchandise supplied to all buyers. Moreover, La Caisse holds a really small proportion of shares in these firms, which limits its potential to straight affect them. In precise truth, it owns lower than 0.1% of the vast majority of the businesses recognized,” the assertion reads.
“The remainder are largely multinationals, resembling Reserving, Airbnb or Alphabet (Google), which can be obtainable and used everywhere in the world and owned by a lot of buyers. As well as, when La Caisse can’t train direct affect to encourage finest practices, it does so via Federated Hermès, a globally acknowledged service supplier specialised in shareholder engagement. We count on all of those firms 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 regulation and can proceed to behave in accordance with worldwide requirements on this matter wherever it operates. La Caisse takes its tasks as a worldwide investor very severely and is dedicated to proceed working in line with the very best requirements of human rights.”
Albanese has been accused by the USA Mission to the United Nations of creating “false and offensive claims” which it says replicate “malignant antisemitism” and has referred to as for her removing, however the lawyer doubled down on her allegations Thursday as worldwide representatives to the UN met in Geneva to debate the report.