I very much want Canada to follow the bit about making things better, while avoiding the bit about letting things get really bad first :-/

There has been progress in Canada, but industry and government are a long way from really listening to the ecologists. I do think there are people in government and industry who care... and others who don't.

In Canada there are official standards, and a commission that checks every mining/extraction operation that might impact biodiversity etc... but the mining/extraction operations almost always get the green light because they promise jobs, and biodiversity keeps declining. Keystone species like the caribou are on the edge of endangered status. Meanwhile, studies show that those companies never create nearly as many jobs as they promise.

Seeing what is "officially" happening in Canada, and then reading the independent reports inspires me to have healthy scepticism about what industry/government presents to the public.