KAIROS is concerned about the growing pattern of Canadian resource extraction companies whose overseas activities are having a negative impact on the environment and human rights, including the rights of indigenous peoples. Canadian mining companies are operating worldwide and their presence is expanding—as is our government’s support for their operations. We’re focusing on several specific cases at the request of our partners, and we’re joining a cross-Canada effort calling on the Canadian government to hold the extractive industry legally accountable for its actions overseas and here in Canada.

On November 19, two KAIROS representatives will appear before the Parliamentary foreign affairs committee to express the churches’ support for Bill C-300, a groundbreaking private member’s bill on corporate accountability.

• KAIROS' Call to Action
• KAIROS' Letter of Support
• Join the Bill C-300 Facebook Group

Here are some further useful resources on Canadian Resource Extraction and Human Rights:

• The Canadian Network for Corporate Accountability.
• KAIROS Policy Briefing Paper #11: Regulating Canadian Mining, Oil and Gas Companies Operating Internationally (May 2007) (PDF format)
  
• Roundtables on Extractive Industries: KAIROS submission 1 (Cerro de San Pedro)
• Roundtables on Extractive Industries: KAIROS submission 2 (Recommendations for the Canadian government)
• Roundtables on Extractive Industries: KAIROS submission 3 (Focus on Africa)
• A Submission by The United Church of Canada to the National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractives Sector in Developing Countries
• Third World Network statement on extractive industries, 2006
• For the love of our people and our community: Canadian mining and Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico (PDF format)
• The Real Cost of Mining in the Philippines (PDF format)
• In Debt to Water: Gold and Ghana (PDF format)