The Liberal MP who pushed for legislation promoting transparency when companies set up operations abroad told Vice News he hopes the government will pick up his twice defeated bills.
In 2009 John McKay, Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Scarborough—Guildwood, introduced Bill C-300 in 2009, the Corporate Accountability of Mining, Oil and Gas Corporations in Developing Countries Act. According to McKay the bill would promote "environmental best practices and to ensure the protection and promotion of international human rights standards in respect of the mining, oil or gas activities of Canadian corporations in developing countries". The private member's bill was only narrowly thrown out in the final reading, with a final vote of 140 (against) to 134 (in favour) in Oct. 2010.
In 2013 a new version of the legislation, Bill C-474, took aim at murky payments and would require Canadian resource companies to provide annual transparency reports disclosing payments made by the company to foreign governments.
While McCkay is back in office with the governing Liberals, he is not in cabinet.
McKay says he is optimistic Trudeau will pick up the issue.
Liberal John McKay tells me that strict rules for Canadian mining companies are in the pipeline. https://t.co/VBBT2yvXXg
— Justin Ling (@Justin_Ling) November 6, 2015
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