Take action to prevent corporate human rights violations

 
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Amnesty International is concerned about human rights violations committed directly or indirectly by some Canadian mining, oil and gas companies in developing countries.

To ensure that all Canadian companies respect human rights in developing countries, we need mandatory human rights standards and stronger regulations to hold transnational companies accountable.

The Canadian Government is considering adopting a bill on corporate accountability (Bill C-300).

Amnesty International supports Bill C-300. But to ensure that the bill passes into law, we need everyone who cares about human rights to express their support.

MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD

Please send a message to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development and express your support for Bill C-300

Fill out this form below to send an immediate message to all committee members:

  • Johanne Deschamps, BQ
  • Francine Lalonde, BQ
  • Glen Douglas Pearson, LIB
  • Bob Rae, LIB
  • Bernard Patry, LIB
  • Paul Dewar, NDP
  • Jim Abbott, CP
  • Dean Alison, CP
  • Peter Goldring, CP
  • Dave Van Kesteren, CP
  • James Lunney, CP
  • Deepak Obhrai, CP

4367 signatures have been added to the petition. Click here to view petition signatures.


To: Members of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development

Dear Committee member,

I am deeply concerned about the human rights practices of some Canadian oil, gas and mining companies in developing countries.

The Government of Canada, as a human rights leader and signatory to international human rights instruments, has a responsibility to hold Canadian transnational companies accountable for human rights violations in developing countries. I believe that companies that fail to abide by international human rights standards should be ineligible to receive financial and political support from the Canadian government (i.e. through Canada Pension Plan and Export Development Canada).

To this end, I urge you to support Bill C-300, An Act Respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries.

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The goal of Amnesty International Canada's "Business and Human Rights" program is to ensure that all economic actors (including businesses, financial institutions and trading bodies) promote and respect human rights.

To achieve our goals, we challenge companies, investors, and other economic actors to improve their human rights practices, and we call on the Canadian government to hold Canadian companies accountable when they are complicit in human rights violations.

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Canadians speak out
on Bill C-300

Nothing is more important that supporting and protecting human rights.
H. Barkla,

We are responsible for the global community. It is in understanding this responsibility we will achieve human rights and peace. I support the bill.
Nerina Chiodo,

Let's not repeat the same mistake we made with "our" natives!!!!We hvae better communication skills, and let's use them to protect those people...
Beatrice Hamel, victoria, B.C.

At the very least, corporate accountability must include respectful consultation with Indigenous populations.
Joan O'Laney,

I fully support this petition
Muazaz Amin Aziz, Mississauga

I believe it is our duty in this great country to lead the world to moral and ethical high ground through our example.
Stephanie Wood, Ajax

If these human rights practices are not acceptable in Canada when there is abuse. Then why look the other way when some Canadian companies commit abuse abroad.
Jorge A. Escobar, Ottawa

I am a supporter of Amnesty International and a labour activist, and I believe workers' rights are human rights.
Kim Hume,

Canadians (I'm one of them) really do care about the cost of the negative impacts for people versus the benefit to feed our wealthy companies. Their loss is not worth our gain.
Cheryl Krueger,

This is important to me as a Canadian citizen and taxpayer.
Caroline Pestieau, Ottawa

People should not lose their homes to provide mor resources to the "already have" nations!!
Linda Scarlett-Hauck,

As a Professional Engineer involved in the industry, it concerns me greatly that basic human right standards do not suffer as a result of my employment.
Frank Brown,

I support this.
Ryan Attoe, Toronto

I encourage Canada to set an example for the rest of the world.
Janet Carey, Kitchener

Human dignity before money... is this possible ???
Diane Guerin, Longueuil

PASS BILL C-300!
CHARLES BALL, Victoria

Canadian companies must be required to obey Canadian standards of justice and human rights, regardless of where their operations occur around the globe.
Stephen Peppin, Stratford

How can the West ever compensate for the Bhopal disaster? Make our companies so accountable that it will never ever happen again! God sees our greed.
Betty Weenink, Lacombe

I would ask why Canadian companies shouldn't follow the same human rights policies in third world counties as in Canada provided they don't break the laws of those countries.
Graeme Kershaw, Calgary