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.

This fall, 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
  • Lois Brown, CP
  • Peter Goldring, CP
  • James Lunney, CP
  • Deepak Obhrai, CP
  • Kevin Sorenson, CP

3263 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

As the globe gets smaller it becomes increasingly obvious that what we do to others we, literally, do to ourselves. The Government's support for Bill C-300 will indicate that we have understood this.
Grant Jahnke, Toronto

To deliberately allow another's human rights to be violated for one's own benefit is no different than to commit the same violation oneself.
David Blackwel, Trail

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

Please work to pass this piece of legislation.
Tyler Goettl, London

I fully support this petition
Muazaz Amin Aziz, Mississauga

It is our responsibility to ensure that we, Canadians, truly show our concerns for human rights in developing countries.
Edenne Fournier, Montréal

It is important that Canadian companies be held accountable for any actions overseas that violate human rights. Everyone deserves to have their human rights protected.
Catherine Craig, Kelowna

I feel it is very important that this bill C300 be passes as we are responsible Canadians and it is time that we showed this to others. Please do the right thing and pass this bill. After all, it is our future.
Sandra Jackson, Cobourg

I support Bill C-300.
Virginia Huebsch, Scarborough

Please uphold international human rights and support Bill C-3000.
Nancy Keyser, Toronto

I consider this extremely important as the Canadian government continues to contemplate a free trade agreement with the Republic of Colombia.
Andrew Monro, Ottawa

As one of the wealthiest nations we have a responsibility to set an example for other nations, who may not be as wealthy and developed as we are here in Canada.
Elaine McGrath,

this is simply about equality..necessary and vital for the human race..necessary and vital for the planet
Kelly Van Der Gang,

I fully support Bill C-300.
amelia ash,

Simply put: EQUAL RIGHTS AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
Kateri De Souza, Scarborough

Support this bill so you don't lose votes - or - Support this bill because it's the right thing to do. Just do it please.
Liz Herlich,

So much resource extraction overseas is simply the rich and more powerful world teaming up with elites in southern countries to deprive the already poor of their traditional lands and means of support. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
A. H. Harry Oussoren, Toronto

Human rights are everyone's business including businesses. Please help us hold them to the highest possible standard by supporting Bill C-300.
Dwight Peters,

I think the time has come to act immediately.
Christine Lauffer,