The Canada Brand: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America

Authors

Shin Imai, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow
Leah Gardner, McGill University, Faculty of Law
Sarah Weinberger, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University (Student Author)

Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

11-20-2016

Abstract

The Canada Brand: Violence and Canadian Mining in Guatemala

This is the first report to profile specific forms of violence and criminalization associated with Canadian mining projects in Latin America over a fifteen-year period. Each incident is carefully footnoted and all web links are preserved using Harvard Law School’s Perma.cc service. The report is critical of the lack of Canadian mechanisms for investigating human rights abuses of Canadian companies operating overseas. It draws on the thinking of former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Ian Binnie and others to argue that the concepts of proximity to violence and complicity of the Canadian company should be the basis for rethinking the current law in Canada.

Comments

Available on SSRN.

Also available in Spanish under title "La “Marca Canadiense”: La violencia y las compañías mineras canadienses en América Latina."

Repository Citation

Imai, Shin, Leah Gardner and Sarah Weinberger. "The Canada Brand: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America." Justice and Corporate Accountability Project, November 20 2016.