Catherine Coumans, a research coordinator and Asia pacific program coordinator at MiningWatch Canada, a Canadian initiative supported by organisations with interests in environmental and social justice, called CIDA's new move a "band-aid" solution. "Tax payer dollars are being transferred to the industry to help it improve its image overseas but this doesn't address the problem of environmental and social harm caused by mining," she says.
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