Canada is behind on fighting modern slavery

A Senate public bill would help Canadian consumers have more confidence in the products they purchase by encouraging corporations to take actions that will reduce the risk of slavery being in their supply chains.

Bill S-211, Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act, is being studied by the House Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREY SAWCHENKO

October 17, 2022

Fifty million people are now estimated to be enslaved around the world and Canada’s law makers need to recognize the country has fallen behind in the fight to end modern slavery. On Sept. 12, the United Nations’ International Labour Organization (ILO) released its first modern slavery

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