LAW 533 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Toronto Stock Exchange, Mesa, Open-Pit Mining
30 Dec 2019
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Chapter 11: csr legal actions against companies overseas. Copper mesa would have to be complicit (legal concept: again, a common theme of the need for a legal reform of the existing laws in canada to provide more accountability of corporations for human rights abuses committed overseas. Cambior secures dismissal of omai-related class actions: class action law suit on behalf of all the villagers and they"re bringing this lawsuit to quebec (cambior is quebec based). Presbyterian church of sudan v talisman: the class action lawsuit against talisman energy inc. alleges that the churches were bombed and burned and parishioners were bombed, shot, tortured, raped and displaced by sudanese. Talisman started to take measures to improve their practices and things were actually improving, and then this divestment campaign forced them to sell. They sold to an india-state owned company and the human right crimes kept happening because that new company that came in didn"t care too much about those issues.
