The Trudeau government is revamping its approach to modern-day slavery, promising new legislation that caught off guard the Liberal MP who has been steering a bill on forced labour through Parliament.
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Firms would have to check that none of their products or components are made in sweatshops employing children or people forced to work excessive hours for free or for paltry pay, and issue reports. The bill has been criticized by the NDP, Bloc Quebecois and human-rights advocates for imposing only a duty to report instead of actually weeding out things like child labour.
"It's where you're coming from to where you're going to, and right now we're at Ground Zero, because we have no legislation," he said, arguing consumers and bankers could use the information to pressure corporations. But his office said the intent of the new legislation is to create an impetus for firms and governments to actually act when they identify an instance of forced labour."My job is to make sure we draft the most effective legislation possible that not only identifies these goods, but has the teeth to act on them. It will send a clear message to the world: forced labour has no place in Canada.
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