Canadian mining in the Congo

I wrote an article that appears in the new issue of the Dominion, a project of the Canadian Media Co-op. It's on Canada vengefully blocking debt forgiveness to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on behalf of a big mining outfit called First Quantum Minerals, based out of Vancouver. They're very well-connected; former Prime Minister Joe Clark worked for them in the late 1990s and went to the DRC around the time a lot of their mining deals there were signed. The Dominion even included a cartoon with a beaver in it.

It's important we keep on top of Canada's imperialist ambitions abroad. The effects Canada is having on people in Haiti, in Afghanistan, and in countries around the world where its mining corporations are found (Honduras, Chile, the Philippines, Mexico, the DRC, Guatemala, among others) have been devastating, and those of us in Canada are the ones best positioned to change Canada's policies.

For the article, I interviewed Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo, and aired the interview on Black Mask. You can listen to that interview at the Media Co-op.