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Coltan is a mineral that is not commonly known but is intensively used. Most of it is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by people (usually small children) who are extremely underpaid and who make just enough to survive but not enough to quit their dangerous job. Not only is this killing workers but the mining is also helping to finance a war that has killed over seven million people. Paul Dewar, the NDP MP, proposed a bill to make sure Canadian corporations do not purchase the mineral that was retrieved unfairly. But in the U.S.A. some huge businesses like Wal-Mart and Target don't like this idea and I think it is because they feel it would be too expensive to pay the workers a decent wage and not many consumers would buy their products if the prices increased. It would be really difficult if we tried to boycott these products but we can raise awarness and together we can influence the people who are behind this slavery.
There are people out there who are screaming for help but we can't hear them because we are absorbed in our 2D world.
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Let their voice be heard.
(Globe and Mail by Ian Marlow)
