{"id":605686,"date":"2026-04-15T12:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605686\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:55:50","slug":"ottawa-must-do-more-to-keep-forced-labour-out-of-canadas-supply-chains-advocates-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605686\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa must do more to keep forced labour out of Canada&#8217;s supply chains, advocates say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Liberal MP John McKay says the existing Supply Chains Act is not being fully enforced, which could become a trade irritant with the United States as Washington asks Canada to crack down more on slave labour. Hendry Zhang, a researcher with the International Justice and Human Rights Clinic at the University of British Columbia, says companies are not providing detail in their reporting and many firms aren&#8217;t legally required to share any information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-gmr-5\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Liberal MP John McKay says the existing Supply Chains Act is not being fully enforced, which could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,217673,228726,228725,3717,44,20739,714,994,228723,228724,89278],"class_list":{"0":"post-605686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-forced-labour","11":"tag-hendry-zhang","12":"tag-john-mckay","13":"tag-labour","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ottawa","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-research","18":"tag-slave-labour","19":"tag-supply-chains-act","20":"tag-ubc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}