In the November 2022 report “Passively Funding Crimes Against Humanity: How Your Savings May Be Financing Internment Camps and Forced Labor in China,” which you co‑authored, you comment on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which prohibits the importation into the United States of products mined or manufactured in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The report points out that this law does not require a ban on investment in Uyghur Autonomous Region businesses. You recommend that the United States enforce this ban through executive order 14032.
I find this very interesting, because the Canadian government has done it differently. Instead, it has done it through an order in council, to ban products from the Xinjiang region that were probably produced using forced labour.
The problem is that we are not in a position to implement this order. Obviously, in this one, there is absolutely no mention of investments in the Uyghur Autonomous Region. So we're banning the entry into Canada of products made in the Xinjiang region, which were probably made using forced labour, but we're not banning investment in companies that produce goods that will be exported elsewhere if we don't import them here. Isn't that a contradiction?
I will then come back to what you are proposing in relation to decree 14032.