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This volume explores the impact of Transnational Corporations
(TNCs) on the environment of the Global South during this period of
neoliberal globalization. Since the end of the 1970s, the role of
TNCs in the global economy has developed significantly, and the
subsequent changes to international institutions and the
establishment of free trade zones have limited the effectiveness of
environmental protections. Drawing together contributions from
several continents, this important book examines the environmental
consequences and crises resulting from these changes. It highlights
the negative impact on the environment, ecosystems and ways of
living for many people across the globe and shows how this is
reflected in the struggle between corporate interests, social
movements and human rights. Developing key themes around
transnational extractive activity, especially mining and oil
corporations; the impact of transnational capital on indigenous or
traditional populations, and the role played by international
institutions, Environmental Impacts of Transnational Corporations
in the Global South is essential reading for all researchers and
practitioners within the field.
Imperial Canada Inc. sets out to ask a simple question: why is
Canada home to more than 70% of the world's mining
companies?Created by the British North America Act of 1867, Canada,
rather than turning away from its colonial past, actively embraced,
appropriated, and perpetuated the imperial ambitions of its mother
country. Two years later, it took possession of Rupert's Land all
of the land draining into Hudson Bay and the North West
Territories from the Hudson's Bay Company, 3 million square miles
of resources, and set about its nation-building enterprise of
extending its Dominion  from sea to sea."This Canadian imperial
heritage continues to offer the extractive sector worldwide a
customized trading environment that: supports speculation, enables
capital flows to finance questionable projects abroad, pursues a
pro-active diplomacy which successfully promotes this sector to
international institutions, opens fiscal pipelines to Caribbean tax
havens, provides government subsidies, and most especially, offers
a politicized legal haven from any risk of litigious recourse
attempted by any community seriously affected by these
industries.Traditionally rooted in Canadian law, the right to
reputation effectively supersedes freedom of expression and the
public's right to information. Hence, Canadian  bodies corporate,"
i.e. Canadian-based corporations, can sue for  libel" any and all
persons or legal entities that quote documents or generate analyses
of their corporate practices that they do not approve of. Even
foreign academics have become hesitant about presenting their work
in Canada for fear of such prosecution.The authors of Imperial
Canada Inc., all respected scholars in their fields, meticulously
research four factors that contribute to the answer to this
question: Quebec's and Ontario's mining codes; the history of the
Toronto Stock Exchange; Canada's involvement with Caribbean tax
havens; and, finally, Canada's official role of promoting itself to
international institutions governing the world's mining sector.
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