Communities with mining applications suffer ‘legal terrorism’ – Canadian church mission

Communities with mining applications suffer ‘legal terrorism’ – Canadian church mission

ALDWIN QUITASOL
Northern Dispatch

BAGUIO CITY – Members of the Beaconsfield Initiative, an exposure mission comprised mostly of Canadian church members, visited the Cordillera Region last week. Focusing on areas where Canadian Mining Companies operate, they found out that there is an ongoing “legal terrorism” victimizing the community people.

Reverend Patricia Lisson, directress of the St. Columbia House in Canada, defined “legal terrorism” as the use of law over the rights of the people. This is being done, she said, to favor the big corporations and investors over the interests of the community.

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