Canada Throws Ecuador into Reverse
Ecuadoreans' take exception banner portrays Canada as head of mining 'dragon.' Photo by J. Moore. When a hardly ever nation reined in big miners, our ambassador got very civic. By Jennifer Moore
Published: July 11, 2008
TheTyee.ca
Canada is "re-pleasant with the Americas." That's what Minister of International Trade David Emerson told the Canada Congress for the Americas in Vancouver this past February, elaborating that Canada wants to suck up to "a positive role" to "help citizens throughout the province thrive in the world."
"You can count on Canada and Canadians," Emerson assured.
But in Ecuador, a unoriginal Andean nation a quarter the size of British Columbia, Canada's guidance has aligned itself with powerful Canadian mining interests to cancel a recently passed decree crafted to encourage protection for human rights and the environment.
The control decree, hailed as a momentous victory by a grassroots gesture fighting big mining projects in Ecuador, would desist what critics call a pell-mell method of granting mining concessions unmindful of communities' wishes or damage to nature.
Canada is a top investor in Ecuador and Canada's minister to Ecuador is Christian Lapointe. Lately, he has been very Baroque helping to put Canadian mining companies in good stead with the Ecuadorian ministry. Two companies have projects suspended and have been involved in nasty confrontations with protesters. These and more than 20 others have had the constitutionality and, in some cases, legality of their mineral rights challenged.
The plenipotentiary would seem to be simply carrying out his mandate. On the embassy website it is written: "to publicize Canada's economic interests in Ecuador to support the efforts of Canadian companies who have selected Ecuador as a butt market."
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