{"id":626372,"date":"2026-04-24T21:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626372\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T21:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:30:19","slug":"lawyers-urge-ottawa-ban-alabama-forced-labour-in-vehicle-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626372\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers urge Ottawa ban Alabama forced labour in vehicle imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lawyers with the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto are calling on the Canadian Border Services Agency to ban American imports that stem from forced labour. They lawyers traced automotive imports from Alabama that are on sale in Canada, which government and citizen groups within the U.S have said are being made with coerced prison labour. (April 24, 2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawyers with the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto are calling on the Canadian Border&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[234833,49,48,217673,234834,20739,13615],"class_list":["post-626372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-automotive-imports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-forced-labour","tag-international-human-rights","tag-ottawa","tag-university-of-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626372","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=626372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}