R V Courtaulds Fibres Canada Case Summary

This article is mainly focusing on discussing the current situation in which the EMS has been emphasized in Canada and its relationship with the company operations. Nowadays, as the public awareness of putting the issues of protecting environment as necessarily has been increased, not only had the government of Canada put more attention on how to create the strict environmental law with fine or taxes that high enough for producing the behavior change preventing environmental destruction, but also those polluting industries being regulated had found the new ways to make the cost of environmental destruction lower than as usual by facilitating more advanced technologies that make companies produce the same amount of products with less pollution. However, the most brilliant idea in this article is the due diligence that
Also, this critique is shown in the case study of R.v Courtaulds Fibres Canada Inc. when the court had canceled out all of charges that should be imposed for the spill because this company had shown the due diligence towards to the spill. In fact, even though the company eventually avoided the charge for the spill because of its due diligence the problem that required standard for due diligence has not been defined has not yet addressed. As the questions being posted on the article, how long does a company take to be qualified as being duly diligent? What kinds of steps the company takes to be regarded as having due diligence by government? Since those questions are not being answered completely, we can not say that one company can avoid any cost and charge for the environmental damage they produced because of due diligence without clearly defined. Fortunately, many companies have been taken the actions proactively for their environment management in an effort to make their process more