“Canada’s Systematic Failure to Fulfill its International Obligations to Human and

Background on the UPR Mandate We understand that the UPR is a novel and critical process that flows from the mandate of the Human Rights Council to "undertake a universal periodic review, based on objective and reliable information, of the fulfilment by each State of its human rights obligations and commitments”.11 The goal of the UPR is to assess how each State addresses human rights and to provi. [...] In 2007, the federal government introduced the Global Commerce Strategy, followed by the 2013 Global Markets Action Plan, which entrenched the practice of “economic diplomacy” as the “driving force behind the Government of Canada’s trade promotion activities.”24 This policy committed to marshalling “all diplomatic assets of the Government of Canada…on behalf of the private sector” in order to supp. [...] At the same time, workers began to seek to exercise their right to form a union in response to health and safety concerns at the mine.100 After filing two official complaints in Canada and when the company repeatedly refused to listen to community members and workers on these issues, protestors formed a legal blockade on private property in front of the mine with the consent of the 93 Blackfire Re. [...] The reports discussed in the previous sections reveal that the actions and omissions of Canadian officials can increase the risk of harm for HRDs in the context of socio-environmental conflicts related to Canadian resource extraction companies. [...] She stated that she had “taken note of the facts indicated” in the August 26, 2021 letter, but that in light of the criminal complaint that had been filed, the embassy would refrain from coming to any conclusions, and would simply allow the criminal complaint process to play out.154 In short, the Ambassador appears to have used the fact of a prior criminal complaint to avoid taking any of the requ.