Canada Seizes Goods Produced by Slave Labour in China

Protesters gather outside the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa on Feb. 22, 2021, as MPs voted on a motion calling on Canada to recognize China's actions against ethnic Muslim Uighurs as genocide. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

For the first time since laws prohibiting the import of products believed to have been manufactured by slave labour were established in 2020, a shipment of goods from China has been seized by Canada.