LAW 533 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Canon Eos C300, Halifax Initiative, Corporate Crime
16 Sep 2016
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Chapter 10: csr, for the canadian extractive sector overseas: the evolving approach. This chapter looks at modern government supported csr framework in the extractive sector. Mandatory not voluntary: campaign to regulate canadian mining, oil and gas companies oversees by the canadian network on corporate accountability (cnca). Cnca is working with halifax initiative with this campaign. This campaign will hold canadian companies accountable for human rights and environmental destruction committed aboard; have them comply with human rights and environmental standards in their operation aboard; follow the international human rights norms in the world bank. Justice binnie of the sc says that lawmakers should consider making legislation that would enable canadian companies to be sued domestically for alleged complicity in human rights. He believes that the enforcements for human rights have lagged. There is a governance gap with allows the companies to get away with their crime; there is no resource to remedies due to this gap.
