U.S. demands action on Canada’s failure to use International Joint Commission to prevent transboundary water pollution

The Elk Valley dispute is important for residents of the area, but it also has far larger import, namely can the Trudeau government ever be trusted in international relations to take action to back up its platitudes?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured May 30, 2022, on the Hill. The United States is Canada’s No. 1 foreign policy priority. But now we have a self-induced conflict over water because Canada refuses to use a bi-national international institution that is the envy of the world, writes Thomas Axworthy. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY THOMAS S. AXWORTHY

August 1, 2022

TORONTO—On June 7, 2022, senior officials from the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Geological Survey met with Indigenous leaders in Idaho to discuss how best to address pollution from mining in British Columbia that affects waters in the United States ...

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