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\u00a0By Aaron Walker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com The Anishnawbe Business Professional Association (ABPA) is calling on the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) to take stronger action against \u201credwashing\u201d \u2014 the corporate misuse of reconciliation language. ABPA warned that redwashing could expose investors, pension funds, and taxpayers to major financial losses. In a position paper titled From Reconciliation to Regulation, the association argued that many companies use positive imagery and community sponsorships to project reconciliation while continuing large-scale projects on Indigenous lands without securing free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC). \u201cRedwashing is the gap between a company\u2019s marketing and its reality,\u201d said ABPA president Jason Rasevych. \u201cA company cannot \u2018redwash\u2019 its operations by sponsoring a community festival while simultaneously ignoring its duty to obtain consent on a project. It\u2019s a corporate… <\/p>\n

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\u00a0By Aaron Walker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com The Anishnawbe Business Professional Association (ABPA) is calling on the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) to take stronger action against \u201credwashing\u201d \u2014 the corporate misuse of reconciliation language. ABPA warned that redwashing could expose investors, pension funds, and taxpayers to major financial losses. In a position paper titled From Reconciliation to Regulation, the association argued that many companies use positive imagery and community sponsorships to project reconciliation while continuing large-scale projects on Indigenous lands without securing free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC). \u201cRedwashing is the gap between a company\u2019s marketing and its reality,\u201d said ABPA president Jason Rasevych. \u201cA company cannot \u2018redwash\u2019 its operations by sponsoring a community festival while simultaneously ignoring its duty to obtain consent on a project. It\u2019s a corporate... <\/p>\n

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