Goals – invest in companies that demonstrate these characteristics:

• Their products and services contribute to basic human needs, including consumer health and safety.
• They exhibit superior performance in the protection of basic human rights, and the hiring, training, and promotion of minorities and women.
• They exhibit innovation with respect to products which protect or enhance the environment and/or which evidence superior performance relative to waste utilization and pollution control.
• When operating internationally, they meet the local standards of host countries for all of the above social and environmental dimensions.

Screens – avoid investing in companies that demonstrate these characteristics:

• Their products and services are unsafe in normal use (such as tobacco and gambling).
• They are weapons systems contractors or derive more than 10% of their gross revenues from defence contracting or subcontracting.
• They do not practice responsible corporate governance.
• They broadly violate fair labour practices.
• They have a record of failure to abide by federal, provincial, and local environmental regulation and/or are participating in nuclear power plant technology (this screen could be re-evaluated if nuclear technology evolves).
• They are responsible for systematic human rights violations or contribute to repressive governmental practices. These screens will also be applied to government debt where appropriate.