The long awaited response from the Canadian government to a multi-stakeholder report on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Canadian Extractive Industries in Developing Countries is evidence that the government has wasted two years in responding to this report and is not serious about assuring corporate accountability for Canadian extractive companies operating overseas... “The Government of Canada has squandered the historic consensus reached by industry and civil society with respect to an effective compliance and complaints mechanism,” says Catherine Coumans of MiningWatch Canada...