Reflections on the Context and Implications of the Transition from Canada's Extractive Sector Corporate Social Responsibility Counsellor to the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise

In December 2017, Canada’s Extractive Sector Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Counsellor was called into the offices of the Minister of International Trade to meet with his senior advisor. The advisor informed the Counsellor that the Government had decided to shut down the Office of the CSR Counsellor and replace it with a new oversight and investigative framework, to be called the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), with a focus limited to company human rights abuses and remedies for complainants whose allegations of abuse could be confirmed (see Meyerhoffer, 2024).