Corporate watchdog to start human rights probes of Canadian imports from China
Ottawa’s corporate-ethics watchdog is set to announce multiple investigations into whether Canadian companies are importing products made through human-rights abuses inThe Liberals appointed Sheri Meyerhoffer as the first Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise in April 2019, and advocates and MPs have since criticized the government for not launching a single investigation.
They enacted the new office in 2018, dubbing it CORE and allowing it to probe garment industries as well as the oil and gas sectors. Meyerhoffer was appointed a year later, but she only started accepting complaints in 2021 and has yet to launch any investigations. In June, Meyerhoffer testified to MPs that she was reviewing 15 complaints, the same number she had outlined in February.
Her office monitors the roles of any entity controlled by a Canadian firm directly or indirectly, which includes foreign suppliers and contractors who only work for a company based in Canada. Advocacy groups have warned that cotton and tomato goods from China may be products of Uyghur slave labour.
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