Above Ground’s submission to the Department of Finance Pre-Budget Consultation
September 9, 2026
Above Ground submitted three key recommendations to the Department of Finance’s 2026 pre-budget consultations.
Above Ground submitted three key recommendations to the Department of Finance’s 2026 pre-budget consultations.
Read Above Ground’s comments to the Public consultation on regulatory approach under Bill C-35, An Act respecting the prohibition of the importation of goods produced by forced labour.
The controversy regarding recent deportations in the U.S. has received wide coverage in Canada, including news that a detention centre dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” is now operating in a remote area of the Florida Everglades. Readers may be less aware of the Canadian connection to this infamous facility.
In this letter to The Hill Times, we question Export Development Canada’s claim that it’s improving the social performance of companies it supports by “leveraging its financial relationship,” and call for legal reforms to ensure accountability.
Canada’s Export Development Act is under review. In this submission to the government, Above Ground and civil society groups from across Canada call for legal reforms to bolster the accountability and transparency of Export Development Canada.
Above Ground and sixteen other civil society groups are calling for improvements in accountability and transparency at Export Development Canada as the government reviews the agency’s governing legislation.
Canada’s export credit agency is reviewing its environmental and social risk management policies. Given the agency’s repeated support for companies facing credible allegations of human rights abuse, environmental damage or other serious harms, such a review is long overdue.
Above Ground has long questioned Export Development Canada’s assessment of environmental and human rights risks posed by its clients’ operations. Now the auditor general is warning there are “significant deficiencies” in the agency’s overall management of risk.
A Canadian deal to finance a luxury Bombardier jet for a controversial South African business family has cast a fresh spotlight on secrecy policies at the federal government’s export credit agency.
By Geoffrey York | The Globe and Mail