Since its enactment in June 2015, Canada’s Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA) has positioned itself as a tool — though perhaps not always as precise or decisive as originally envisioned — in promoting greater transparency within extractive industries. The underlying logic is familiar to most in policy and compliance circles: if firms engaged in […]

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