I am quite disappointed with results of vote today in Parliament on Bill C-300, a private members' bill relating to corporate social responsibility. The concern relates to actions of Canadian extractive industries in developing countries.
As I understand it the bill would have strengthened a company's obligation to respect human rights obligations in its work. The bill would have established an effective complaint/investigation mechanism for dealing with this obligation.
But alas a majority of those MP's voting decided the inconvenience this may cause some companies was more important than international human rights obligations. I am most disappointed that some Liberal MP's did not vote for the bill even though the opposition has a majority of MP's in the present house.
I was very impressed with the arguments in support of the bill.
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