Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program
Ending government subsidies to the Asbestos Industry and banning exports of asbestos.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
Promoting legal measures for ensuring Canadian companies are legally accountable, within Canada, for international activities.
Promoting legislative changes to the Fisheries Act to ensure adequate protection of aquatic habitats from pollution and degradation caused by the mining industry.
Review and amendments to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act to ensure that Federal Environmental Assessment is efficient and effective, considers sustainability criteria, examines cumulative impacts, and includes meaningful and effective public participation.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
Calling for an end to Canadian diplomatic and financial resources being used to support controversial and damaging mining projects.
Policies or Program
Ecological fiscal reform of taxation policies to shift incentives from primary extraction (mining) to secondary production (recycling) of metals. Removal of the “Super Flow Through Shares Program” and the “Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance” for mining.
Regulation of Canadian extractive companies operating internationally: discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the federal government's "Building the Canadian Advantage: A CSR Strategy for the International Extractive Sector" and how it is implemented.
Reviewing, critiquing and seeking improvements to DFO’s habitat compensation program and “no net loss” policy to ensure protection of aquatic ecosystem values.
Policies or Program, Regulation
Changes to the implementation of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act to have mining companies report to National Pollutant Release Inventory on their wastes disposed of in tailings impoundments and waste rock dumps.
Regulation
Preventing further additions to Schedule 2 of the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations (MMER), ensuring improvements to and enforcement of MMER.