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(p)
Include workers as a vulnerable group under its Chemicals Management
Plan and expeditiously re-evaluate previously assessed substances from the perspective
of individual workers’ exposure to toxics;
(q)
Ensure that mine-related regulatory structures incorporate robust
planning for mine closures before projects have been developed or assessed, and enforce
strict financial penalties to ensure industry accountability for the long-term care of
mines;
(r)
Take stringent measures to halt economic and political support to business
enterprises operating abroad where human rights abuses are reported;
(s)
Respect concerns expressed regarding the risk of harm, including where
host countries have established no-go zones for resource extraction, to guarantee
accountability and ensure access to justice for people affected by the activities of
Canadian enterprises abroad;
(t)
Implement legal requirements for robust mandatory human rights due
diligence and provide redress where activities of business enterprises both at home and
abroad are associated with impacts of toxic exposure, with a cause of action for victims
both in the host country and in Canada;
(u)
Expand the mandate of Office of the Canadian Ombudsperson for
Responsible Enterprise to include other economic sectors, providing additional
investigative powers, including the ability to compel the provision of documents and
testimony, and providing the resources required for it to carry out its mandate;
(v)
Revise the avenues available to access justice, to give full effect to the
justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights through the court system in
Canada, engaging civil society and indigenous peoples in that revision;
(w) Conduct continuous national and regional cumulative environmental and
socioeconomic assessments, including environmental health inequality assessments, and
facilitate environmental justice mapping;
(x)
Establish a sound environmental justice framework based on the
principles of procedural justice, geographic justice and social justice;
(y)
Involve indigenous peoples and other population subgroups in selfassessments to complement assessments by members of other population subgroups.
112.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that business enterprises in Canada:
(a)
Invest in technologies to phase out chemicals of concern and increase the
traceability and transparency of chemicals in products, especially consumer products;
(b)
Take proactive measures to prevent environmental harm and respect
concerns of risk of harm, including where host countries have put in place no-go zones
for resource extraction;
(c)
Implement robust and transparent human rights due diligence and
provide redress when activities, whether carried out in Canada or abroad, cause,
contribute to or are linked with impacts of toxic exposure. These processes should oblige
business enterprises to undertake human rights risk assessments in respect of their
activities throughout the supply chain.
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