Newsletter 23: Summer/Autumn 2006

By Ken Luckhardt, Chairperson, PBI-Canada and Board Member, MiningWatch Canada

The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace is launching a five year action program in solidarity with its partners in communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America to promote sustainable human development through participatory management, democratic control, and the equitable distribution of resources.

The first two years of the campaign will focus on mining by Canadian companies in the Global South. Development and Peace campaigners will encourage people to ask the Canadian government to:

The final public sessions in the Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and Canada’s Extractive Sector in Developing Countries take place on Tuesday, November 14 in Montreal. The deadline to register to make an oral presentation is October 31. If you are interested in observing the presentations, simply show up at the Doubletree Plaza Hotel, 505 Sherbrooke Street E., at 9 a.m. or 6 p.m.

Mining projects in Ontario are supposed to be subjected to two levels of Environmental Assessment: Federal and Provincial.