Uncategorized – Justice & Corporate Accountability Project

Request to Investigate Dundee Precious Metals for Failure to Disclose Material Information

12 Aug 2025August 27, 2025

Submission to the Ontario Securities CommissionAugust 12, 2025 Submitted by Shin Imai on behalf of communities and organizations listed in Appendix 1 (see full report). We request that you investigate…

JCAP submission to Global Affairs Canada on Africa

10 Jan 2025January 10, 2025

JCAP urges the Government to adopt a rights-based approach that aims to reverse the harmful legacy of Canadian extractive companies operating in the region. This approach is critical to ensuring…

Submissions to the Review of the Canadian Ombudsperson on Responsible Enterprise (CORE)

29 Oct 2024January 3, 2025

JCAP welcomes the Government of Canada's review of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise. The CORE serves a critical purpose in promoting corporate accountability and responsible business conduct of Canadian…

Osgoode Project Keeps an Eye on Canadian Mining Companies Abroad

28 Nov 2023January 23, 2024

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…

Canada’s Systematic Failure to Fulfill its International Obligations to Human and Environmental Rights Defenders Abroad

4 Apr 2023August 15, 2025

Canada’s Systematic Failure to Fulfill its International Obligations to Human and Environmental Rights Defenders Abroad Submission to the UPR Working Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council In anticipation…

The Two Faces of Canadian Diplomacy: Undermining Human Rights and Environment Defenders to Support Canadian Mining

10 Dec 2022April 19, 2023

Globalized industrial resource extraction is unsustainable from an environmental and social perspective, and Indigenous peoples are often on the front lines of alerting humanity to the resulting harms. Community members…

Board Meeting May 2022

22 Sep 2022January 3, 2025

In May of 2022, JCAP board members convened a group of lawyers, law students, law professors, and NGO’s at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto. The attendees have worked with JCAP…

Social Disclosure and Share Value: Empirical Data on (Non-) Disclosure of Information Related to Violence and Lack of Indigenous Consent

13 Sep 2022August 15, 2025

Social Disclosure and Share Value: Empirical Data on (Non-) Disclosure of Information Related to Violence and Lack of Indigenous Consent Submission to the Canadian Securities Administrators Consultation Regarding NI 43…

The Transnational Mining Justice Movement

14 Aug 2020August 31, 2022

The legal instruments associated with economic globalization, including foreign investment agreements, global markets and trade agreements, have significantly facilitated foreign resource extraction and imbued it with particular geographic patterns. The…