
Border Agency Has Yet to Stop Slave-Made Goods From Entering Canada: Document
Published on April 17, 2024
The Canadian Border Services Agency has been unable to seize shipments of slave-made goods from entering the country since cabinet cracked down in 2020 on the import of goods made under forced labour conditions, federal records show. The border agency said it has intercepted just one shipment since July of 2020, according to an Inquiry of Ministry first obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter. The shipment arrived to Canada from China on Sept. 15, 2021. The shipment, which consisted of $68,623 worth of 100 percent cotton children’s clothes, was initially classified as “goods mined, manufactured or “produced wholly or in part by forced labour,” and was prohibited from entering the country, the report said....
