The Role Of Imperialism In Canada

Capitalist government is established in the rationale of a financial framework that is driven by the focused quest for profit in view of the misuse of labor, and which is in this way inclined to over-collection. The author uses a framework, which he refers to as ‘accumulation by dispossession’. This framework enables us to understand predatory activities of Canadian mining in South America and the Canadian state power to defend and facilitate these activities. Canadian mining companies are amongst the largest in the World, they experience larger growth then other competitors and lead the industry by having seven of the twenty mineral exploration investors in the region.
Mining industry is often in the midst of controversies involving dispossession
of people from their land and environmental degradation. Since mining investment is growing worldwide and particularly in South America, Canadian multinational mining partnerships—some of the industry's biggest and most capable player are often centre of the controversy. Mass struggle of the poor, laborers and indigenous people of Latin America will contribute towards stopping these predatory practices by foreign mining companies. Evidently these behaviors by Canadian mining firms abroad contain echoes of American corporate agenda and this can be addressed through notions of corporate social responsibility so these firms can self regulate and act in a socially responsible manner.
Both Gordon and Webber debate Canada should be regarded as a ‘core’ imperialist nation and not a victim of imperialism.
However the nations own social Democratic Party does not consider Canada to be a core capitalist power with imperial ambitions in the developing world. But the authors argue that ‘ Canada is an advanced capitalist state within a hierarchy of nations operating within the global capitalist economy’. The authors make a compelling argument for Canada being a ‘core’ imperialist state, evaluating Canadian actions overseas will help us understand whether Canada is actually an imperialist state. Canadian mining organizations are scouring the world from Guatemala and Colombia in Latin America to Indonesia and Mongolia in Asia, investigating and tearing up the earth and exploiting cheap labor in these nations. This and more are valid. By all appearances, Canada is currently one of the world's center industrialist nations. It has been agreed that nod by being acknowledged as an individual from G-7, the club of the seven wealthiest industrial nations on the
planet.
The authors also discuss ‘accumulation of dispossession’ and explain how, with the surfacing of neoliberalism we are seeing a new era of imperialist accumulation of dispossession.
Be that as it may, the creation of new spaces of accumulating is not a harmless procedure. It inevitably includes intense reorganization of individuals’ lives as they are subordinated to the impulses of capitalism. This process is often referred to as ‘primitive accumulation’ by Marx in his explanation of the vicious and bloody beginning of Capitalist social relations from the early 17th and 18th century. Canadian mining companies are engaging in such a process, involving themselves in South America where exploitation of cheap labor and degradation of the local environment are unregulated, giving these firms the space to manipulate local communities. Advanced Capitalist states such as Canada have successfully sought out these places and are absorbing surpluses and boosting profits. According to data from the Canadian mineral yearbook, Canadian companies hold the dominant share of the larger companies exploration in
Columbia.
Canadian intercession in the Latin American mining part comes in many forms, not withstanding. Other than basic modification programs upheld through multilateral associations and speculation assertions, it has likewise been accomplished under the pretense of 'advancement. The authors proposed to impose more regulations on Canadian firms in regards to labor rights, misuse of resources and improved alignment of regulations with host countries. However the Government has rejected such proposals because they refused to impose any kind of human rights standards on Canadian firms overseas. This may be due to the large amount of subsidies these firms received from the Canadian Government. There has also been a lot of public pressure on the Canadian government to take action against corporations that exploit labor and resources overseas but once again the Canadian government refused to act on these allegation by transferring the responsibility on host states to impose international human rights laws on these firms. There have been claims by the Canadian government that there are no international norms on how corporations should be acting overseas hence its difficult to measure a firms wrongdoings.
These suggestions put forth by the authors in regards to the behavior of Canadian mining companies in South America are convincing solutions to the issue and if such rules and regulations are implemented globally, this would protect indigenous peoples rights, impose strong labor laws globally, have a set international norm on human rights and promote development worldwide. However due to increasing Canadian direct investment in search for new spaces for capitalist accumulation, the Canadian government has called for revisions on drafts such as the United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which has set back the processes by many years. Obviously it is not in domestic interests to promote such values in Latin America because it would directly affect Canadian profitability. Especially cause Canadian industry has moved to gain control of some of the richest deposits in the World.