Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Tavia Grant
Publication Date: July 2, 2025 - 06:00
Future of Canadian corporate watchdog uncertain as top position remains vacant
July 2, 2025
An office created by the Trudeau government to crack down on abuses by Canadian corporations abroad has been without a permanent head for more than a year, with the position now vacant and the future of the watchdog under review.
The federal government launched the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) in 2019, calling the office the first of its kind in the world. It is tasked with probing allegations of human-rights abuses and environmental harms by Canadian companies operating overseas in the mining, oil and garment sectors.
Unpublished Newswire
For the hundreds of Canadian steelworkers who lost their jobs this year amid President Donald Trump’s trade war, talk of reaching a trade deal between Canada and the U.S. is coming too little, too late.
For Trump, the effects — driving down imports, boosting the U.S. steel industry and winning concessions from Canada — seem to be getting him what he wants.
Initially faced with a 25 per cent tariff on exports to the U.S., which ballooned to 50 per cent in June,
Canadian steel is desperate for a resolution.
Trump imposed the levies under
Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act,...
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