Feds won’t commit to expanding Colombia human rights report

Critics want a ‘more meaningful’ report than the ones tabled by the Conservatives in relation to Canada's trade deal with the Latin American country.

Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured at a WTO meeting in Nairobi last December, wouldn't say last week whether the Liberals would take a new approach from the previous government to the oft-criticized annual human rights report for Colombia.WTO photograph courtesy of Admedia Communication

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

July 20, 2016

Canada’s Liberal government won’t say if it has taken a new approach to a soon-to-be tabled annual human rights report that has disappointed labour and civil rights activists for years. On the heels of a human rights group's report alleging labour rights ...

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