Investigate moral issues and consequences for individuals and society relating to:

• labour (e.g., foreign labourers, forced labour, child labour, humane working conditions, employment equity, dishonest accounting practices)
• the environment (e.g., privatization of water, sustainability issues, deforestation, resource extraction, food production practices such as use of animal growth hormones and genetic engineering).

Contrast Catholic, relativistic and Indigenous views of justice concerning labour, the environment and globalization (e.g., legal and moral considerations).

Discuss perspectives on the private, communal or government ownership of water, land and resources from Catholic and various worldviews including those of First Nations and Métis peoples.

Assess one's opinions and actions concerning various labour and environmental issues (e.g., human trafficking, child labour, climate change).

Investigate how issues of labour and the environment connect to:

• the Creation accounts of Genesis
• the Beatitudes of Christ
• the concept of stewardship.

Discuss contributions of individuals, although flawed, who served as leaders in the field of the environment such as:

• David Schindler and Ronald Reagan for their respective scientific and political leadership surrounding acid rain
• St. Kateri Tekakwitha as patron saint of the environment and ecology
• Pope Francis for his encyclical Laudato Si'.

Discuss contributions of individuals and movements, although flawed, that served as leaders in the field of labour such as:

• Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement
• Fr. Moses Coady and the Antigonish Movement
• Iqbal Masih as a child labour victim, activist and political martyr
• St. Joseph as patron saint of workers.