How Canada Can Help Combat the 'Resource Curse'

Recently, Canada's Parliament introduced the Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act, which could have a huge impact on people around the world experiencing the "resource curse."
More than 60 per cent of the world's poorest people live in countries rich in natural resources -- but they rarely share in the wealth. Too often, poor communities have no say in the extraction of resources from their land and receive little information about the scope of these projects, the revenues they generate, their timelines and potential impacts.
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