Union files complaint against Orla Mining, alleging violation of worker rights in Mexico
The complaint is only the second of its kind made from Canada using CUSMA’s RRM process since the trade deal came into force in 2020.
Former minister of Justice and attorney general of Canada Jody Wilson-Raybould called on all levels of government and industry to stop merely pursuing symbolic gestures towards First Nation reconciliation but to actively pursue meaningful change.
Wilson-Raybould said enabling Indigenous self-determination would support Indigenous peoples’ cultural, social, and economic well-being while giving nations, governments, and industry the certainty needed during this transitional time.
At the conference hosted by the Association for Mineral Exploration in Vancouver this week, Wilson-Raybould said that mining companies working in Indigenous territories have an opportunity to model decision-making based on Indigenous consent.
Wilson-Raybould said several developments were impacting Indigenous groups since she was expelled from caucus amid the SNC-Lavalin affair in 2019.
There has been a continued escalation around some major natural resource projects such as the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s hereditary chiefs’ denial of rights for the 670-kilometre Coastal GasLink pipeline, for example, while new impact benefit agreements and other arrangements continued to be negotiated.
