The federal government has tabled legislation to strengthen Canada’s legal framework to prevent goods made with forced labour from entering the Canadian market.
The bill comes after the U.S. administration on June 2 threatened to impose additional tariffs on 60 countries, including Canada, for allegedly failing to institute forced labour restrictions.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand was in Paris, France, with Prime Minister Mark Carney when the bill was tabled by her parliamentary secretary, Rob Oliphant, on June 12.
Bill C-35, An Act respecting the prohibition of the importation of goods produced by forced labour, would allow Anand to establish a list of goods for which there are “reasonable grounds” to suspect they are produced by forced labour….