A bill that aims to expose the use of child labour and forced labour around the world passed the House of Commons on Wednesday.
Independent Sen. Julie Miville-Dechene, who introduced the bill, said in a statement that it’s urgent for Canada to join other countries in taking action..“According to the International Labour Organization, there may be as many as 50 million people in the world working in some form of modern slavery, up 10 million from five years ago,” said Miville-Dechene.
The Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability had urged MPs to vote against the bill because it does not require companies to do anything about human rights abuses in their supply chains or global operations.Article content “It will not provide people who are harmed by Canadian companies, or their subsidiaries, or their suppliers, access to remedy for the abuse they have suffered, such as by bringing their grievances to Canadian courts,” the network said..It also developed model legislation that inspired a private member’s bill introduced by Peter Julian last year.Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan said that’s only because those parties wanted “to move it further.
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