Time to end Canada’s moral blind spot on mining operations abroad

Trudeau should move quickly to set up an ombudsperson with real power to investigate abuses.
Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland's portfolio relates to corporate social responsibility for the mining sector.
OTTAWA—I always remember a day in the fall of 2009 shortly after Stephen Harper’s Conservative government named Marketa Evans to the post of corporate social responsibility counsellor, with the idea of doing something about allegations of human rights and environmental abuses by Canadian mining ...

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