As miner quells protests in Ecuador, Canadian firms rights record faces scrutiny mongabay.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mongabay.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Environmentalists like Mariano Abarca face tremendous oppression from foreign-owned mining companies. This means, inevitably, that they face the wrath of Canadian companies, given that Canada-based companies make up 41 percent of the largest firms in Latin America. Community activists who oppose Canadian mines are frequently harassed, intimidated, or killed.
Canada is following the Washington’s global agenda completely, which seeks to undermine both Russia and China to preserve the dominance of a US-led Western economic order. This is not only dangerous it will never succeed, as war will sooner lead to apocalypse than the restoration of ailing US hegemony.
Today, corporate accountability experts sent a 30-page submission to the UN Human Rights Council ahead of its April 2023 Universal Periodic Review of Canada, denouncing Canada for its continued diplomatic support of mining companies over the safety.