Episode 32: Fighting Modern Slavery Resuming Debate

Slavery is still a pressing issue that requires the attention of lawmakers worldwide. Many products made with slave labour still manage to enter the Canadian marketplace. To counter modern day slavery, Canadian parliamentarians - including myself – have been working together to develop new legislative tools to prevent these products from entering our country.

I am joined by Liberal MP John McKay, Conservative Senator Leo Housakos, and Independent Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne to discuss this issue and some of the different bills that are seeking to respond to it. Senator Miville-Dechêne and John McKay have both worked to get the Modern Slavery Act through Parliament. More recently Senator Miville-Dechêne has tabled S-211, the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act. Senator Housakos has tabled the Xinjiang Manufactured Goods Importation Prohibition Act to ban all goods from Xinjiang, where Uyghur forced labour is very common.

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