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Environmental "Risks"
by Glenn Woiceshyn
Published in the Globe and Mail (pg. B2) on May/03/96.
Dear Editor,
Re: "The New Environmental Risks"--by Ed Morgan and John Rosen--The Globe
and Mail--Apr/30/96
The attempts by environmentalists and other political power seekers to prosecute
Canadian corporations and their officers for dubious crimes committed on foreign
soil is a dangerous precedent. Corporations should only be held accountable to explicit
and clearly defined laws in the country where they allegedly commit the crimes [--
without interference by any third-party doomsday cult or other "special-interest"
group driven by anti-capitalist ideology and power lust.] The whole concept of "environmental
law" is redundant, anyway, since individual rights, including property rights,
should properly take care of real harm done by real polluters.
Rather than merely advise "Canadian corporations to plot their way carefully
through this legal briar patch," Ed Morgan and John Rosen should encourage corporations
to fight the legal briar patch by speaking out against global statism and non-objective
law.
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1997 Glenn Woiceshyn. All rights reserved.
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