Adjournment Proceedings
In adjournment proceedings, the debate was about Canada’s enforcement against goods made with forced labour. Arnold Viersen of the Conservatives said the CBSA has stopped only two such shipments in five years while the United States has stopped thousands, argued the government weakened the law to help its corporate friends, and said weak enforcement puts trade talks with the United States at risk. Robert Oliphant, the Liberal parliamentary secretary, agreed forced-labour goods do not belong in supply chains, noted the 2020 import ban, and pointed to a forthcoming plan to list risky goods and require importers to show their products were not made with forced labour. Viersen asked when that measure would actually take effect, and Oliphant replied that his government had acted on the file while the previous Conservative government had not.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .
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