A similarly weak mining law that communities, especially spurred on by the impacts of Goldcorp's operations in the Valle de Siria, have been fighting to change since 2002, and that's why there was a mining bill that was on the table prior to the military-backed ouster of Manuel Zelaya in 2009 that would have better incorporated their proposals, but it never got debated because of the military-backed coup that Canada never spoke out about.
On April 10th, 2014. See this statement in context.