MINING WATCHDOG
Ottawa plans early next year to create an independent office to oversee Canadian mining, oil and gas companies' activities abroad, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, a move that environmental and human rights groups have long demanded.
The office would have both an "advisory and robust investigative mandate," a spokesman for Canadian Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said in an email.
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