This article by Darren Garcia originally appeared in the September 19, 2025 edition of Revista Contralínea.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney received a “very positive response” regarding Canadian mining companies operating in Mexico that violate the country’s environmental laws, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo explained after the two leaders met yesterday, September 18, at the National Palace.
“He responded in two ways: one, that they must obviously comply with environmental regulations , that it has to be sustainable mining; and, second, that we should please give his team a list of the mining companies that were not complying so that, from Canada, they could speak with the companies and ask them to comply with all the environmental requirements and the mitigation and remediation established in the environmental impact statements,” the President recounted.
In her morning press conference, Sheinbaum Pardo stated that Mark Carney is very interested in preserving and ensuring the continued existence of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA); “but also in strengthening the Mexico-Canada relationship. So I think it’s a very good time for that strengthening. It means that Canadian companies can invest in Mexico and Mexican companies can invest in Canada, and that we can strengthen complementarity in trade on various issues, and there are many areas of opportunity.”
He also mentioned that they discussed cybersecurity , a topic he said “they’re very good at. […] So, we’re interested in learning about all the practices they use; how they do certain things.”
Furthermore, the President emphasized that Canadians “have made very important progress in oil exploitation for the use of natural gas, and we are also interested in their best practices. And, at the same time, for Mexican workers who go to Canada, we want that agreement to be maintained.” [Mexican workers primarily go to Canada under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, which has been heavily criticized since it was introduced for tying workers to one employers with the power of deportation, for severe exploitation and minimal oversight by labour inspectors – Editor]
Overall, Sheinbaum described the meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister as “very good,” describing him as “a man with an impressive track record: he was governor of two central banks,” both in the United Kingdom and Canada; “but he’s also a very down-to-earth man, very friendly, which always makes for a good relationship.”
[Editor’s Note: besides his time working for two of the premier neoliberal central banks, Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, Mark Carney also worked for 13 years at Goldman Sachs, as co-head of sovereign risk at the time that Goldman Sachs was considered to be profiting and allegedly encouraging the implosion of Long Term Capital Management. Goldman Sachs was infamously described in a 2009 Rolling Stone article as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells of money.”]
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Wow those editors notes are savage…
