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OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is revamping its approach to modern-day slavery, promising new legislation that caught off guard the Liberal MP who has been steering a bill on forced labour through Parliament.McKay has been stickhandling Bill S-211, which would update Canada's laws of forced labour and child labour in supply chains.
The bill was first tabled in the upper chamber by Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne, whose office did not respond to an interview request. They argue the reporting requirement falls short of the Liberals' platform commitment"to eradicate forced labour from Canadian supply chains." "Hopefully with some generation of the information we could move to more onerous pieces of legislation, where companies who don't comply expose themselves to lawsuits," said McKay, who said his government hadn't informed him of what the new bill will entail.
"He's clear that he wants to do something that is fairly robust, and I'm doing nothing but encouraging him to do so."
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