Engineers Without Borders Canada welcomes improvements to transparency Act, but highlights need to align standards with US, EU

Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Canada said on Monday that there were key areas of the recently tabled Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act that fell short of meeting the commitment to ensuring Canada’s transparency standards were aligned with emerging international requirements in the US and the European Union (EU). “We are very concerned that Canada’s Extractive [Sector] Transparency Measures Act does not require payments that extractives companies ...