Canadian Lawyer Magazine interviews Osgoode professor emeritus Shin Imai and law student Lisa Rankin about the founding of the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP) and ongoing efforts to hold the Canadian mining industry accountable.
Canadian Lawyer Magazine, Carolyn Gruske
“Violence, death, massive protests and political struggles may not be common aspects of doing business in Canada, but that doesn’t mean they are unknown situations to Canadian companies engaged in mining activities around the world. They also aren’t unfamiliar scenarios to the lawyers and law students behind Osgoode’s Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP). In fact, JCAP was created about a decade ago to investigate exactly these types of conflicts between Canadian mining companies and the people who live in and near areas of mining activity, such as local Indigenous populations who often have very few means of standing up and objecting to exploration and mining activities, according to Shin Imai, professor emeritus at Osgoode, and a member of the board of directors of JCAP.”
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