Take Action – Prime Minister Carney: Empower the CORE, don’t eliminate it

On Thursday, June 11, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his government would “eliminate” the office of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE).

The CORE was mandated to investigate human rights abuses linked to Canadian mining, oil and gas, and garment companies operating outside Canada. It was created in response to over a decade of advocacy by civil society organizations, and hundreds of thousands of individual Canadians, standing in solidarity with frontline workers and communities against widespread Canadian corporate impunity.

Eliminating the CORE is our government’s latest move in a “tsunami” of new laws and policies that roll back basic human rights and environmental protections to the benefit of powerful multinational corporations. Prime Minister Carney said he made this decision because the CORE was not “effective”. But from the start, the government set the office up to fail. It announced it would give the office robust tools and independence, then backtracked on its commitment after extensive lobbying by powerful industry representatives – without even informing complainants. The solution has always been to empower the CORE, not eliminate it. 

Tell Prime Minister Carney to listen to constituents, not corporate lobbyists. Reinstate the CORE, this time with the powers and independence it has always needed.

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Published on the CNCA website