For some time, the committee has been investigating the role of the private sector in achieving Canadian international development interests.
Professor Luning, you discussed in some of your research projects that African societies have been completely dependent on technology that has affected all forms of daily life. This technology is essentially foreign in origin, and this technology that mining countries use for the extraction of their desired resources has come to shape many forms of social interactions in the various communities.
Can you please elaborate on how societies that rely on mining companies and their technologies are negatively affected by these technologies that are meant to guide them?
Thank you.