Canadian Mining – Who Profits? Local Communities, Foreign Investors, and the Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement

Please join us for a discussion on how international trade and investment agreements benefit Canadian mining companies whose activities threaten the lives and livelihoods of local communities in Ecuador – and what these communities are doing to fight back.

This event will feature a screening of Malcolm Rogge’s short film ‘The Tribunal’, which follows an Ecuadorian community’s resistance against a Canadian-owned mining project, and the eventual international investment arbitration proceedings in which the Canadian mining company sued the Ecuadorian government under the Canada-Ecuador bilateral investment treaty.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring distinguished guests:

• David Schneiderman – Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; Author of ‘Constitutionalizing Economic Globalization: Investment Rules and Democracy's Promise’.
• Zenaida Yasacama – Vice President of Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador.
• Natalia Greene – Director of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature; Ecuadorian activist and political scientist.

This event is being hosted by the International Human Rights Program (IHRP) and co-sponsored by Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR).

Registration is required, please check back for the registration link.