March 4, 2024
Many governmental departments across Canada are failing us when it comes to to fulfilling their duty to the public as watchdogs over corporate interests.
These days, many profiteers are simultaneously exacerbating the climate and biodiversity crises while giving the impression that they are best suited to resolve them.
This was evident from most industrial resource-extraction sectors in Canada last year. Public relations machines churned out spin, including “narrative advertising” that’s formatted to look like news. Mining, logging and oil and gas positioned their industries as merely solutions to the challenges we face, downplaying or outright ignoring the ecological impacts they continue to have.
Julee Boan is the Canada project partnership manager at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Rachel Plotkin is the boreal project manager at the David Suzuki Foundation.