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Nevsun Resources Ltd. (Nevsun), société constituée en Colombie-Britannique qui détient 60% des parts de la Bisha Mining Share Company, en a appelé de l’accord de la Cour d’appel et du juge en cabinet pour ce qui est de rejeter la requête de radiation des actes de procédure présentée par Nevsun. Un recours collectif a été intenté contre Nevsun par plus de 1,000 personnes qui ont affirmé avoir été contraintes de travailler à la mine de la Bisha Mining Share Company entre 2008 et 2012.

Nevsun Resources Ltd. (Nevsun), a corporation incorporated in British Columbia that owns 60% of the Bisha Mining Share Company, appealed from the Court of Appeal’s agreement with the Chambers Judge to dismiss Nevsun’s motion to strike the pleadings. Nevsun was sued in a class action made up of more than 1,000 individuals who claimed they were forced to work at the Bisha Mining Share Company’s mine between 2008 and 2012.

Cette affaire concernait des restrictions issues de la common law anglaise à la participation des organismes de bienfaisance à des activités politiques non partisanes visant à obtenir des changements dans les lois ou les politiques pour contribuer à l’avancement de leurs fins de bienfaisance.

At issue in this case were restrictions derived from English common law on charities’ engagement in non-partisan political activity to secure changes to laws or policies to further their charitable purpose. In Canada these restrictions had been incorporated into Canada’s Income Tax Act (ITA), which stated that registered charities may only engage in non-partisan political activities to seek changes to any laws or policies if such activities were “ancillary and incidental” to their charitable activities, with the latter constituting “substantially all” of the organization’s resources.