For decades, polluting industries and landfill sites have ended up in Indigenous, Black, Brown and other racialized communities in Canada, burdening these communities with higher-than-normal rates of cancer, respiratory illnesses, and other chronic health problems.   

These sacrifice zones extend to communities in the Global South – usually poor and often Indigenous – where Canadian mining companies operate, contaminating fresh water sources, and contributing to well-documented human rights violations. 

If Canada wants to live up to its reputation as a human rights defender and a just transition champion, it must end environmental racism at home and abroad once and for all.  

It must finally put an end to sacrifice zones and ensure corporate accountability. 

The bills: 

• Bill C-226 to end environmental racism and advance environmental justice  
• Bill C-262 for the adoption of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence legislation (mHREDD)  
• Bill C-263 to empower the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) 

Learn more about the bills and write to your Member of Parliament today! 

In solidarity, 

The KAIROS Climate Action Month team.