Activists concerned about forced labour have lost a court bid for a general ban on the Canadian importation of all goods from the Xinjiang region of China.
OTTAWA - Activists concerned about forced labour have lost a court bid for a general ban on the Canadian importation of all goods from theThe Federal Court has rejected their application to overturn a Canada Border Services Agency decision that said the agency had no authority to enact such a ban.
The federal government has expressed concern about documentary evidence of repression of Uyghurs and other minorities by Chinese authorities on the basis of their religion and ethnicity under the pretext of countering terrorism and religious extremism.Xin In January of last year, a border services agency official said in an email to the refugee group and the other supporters of a ban that it lacked authority to prohibit or regulate goods that might have been produced by forced labour solely based on their origin in a specific region or country.