Child labour policies, Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions: In The News for Oct. 28
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 28 …
What we are watching in Canada …
A new report is recommending ways Ottawa can work with suppliers to avoid complicity in human trafficking, forced labour and child labour, after finding the vast majority of vendors selling billions of dollars in goods to the government lacked adequate policies to prevent human and labour rights risks in their supply chains.
The report was completed for the federal government in May by Rights Lab, a multidisciplinary group knowledgeable about human trafficking based at the University of Nottingham in England.