Consensus Starting Points

Canadian businesses, civil society, labour and government are looking for the best path forward to prevent and eliminate adverse human rights impacts in the global operations and supply chains of companies based in Canada and / or doing business in Canada. The civil society groups listed below agree upon and offer the following as consensus starting points. We encourage business and other civil society groups to use it as a basis for further dialogue. Canada can and must do more to protect and promote respect for human rights by Canadian companies throughout their global operations and supply chains.…

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