Certainly. I'd be happy to.
I would say that the ministers' mandate letters—the Minister of Labour, along with the ministers of international trade, public services and procurement and public safety—do have commitments to introduce legislation, what we refer to as “supply chain legislation”. I can't provide you with any specific timelines on when that supply chain legislation would be introduced. What I can say to you is that, whenever any country is looking at introducing supply chain legislation of this nature, there are, generally speaking, a few key pieces of policy that need to be determined or ascertained prior to introducing legislation of this nature.
The first question is whether the type of legislation should be what is referred to as “transparency” or “due diligence” legislation. The second would be a question around the scope of how broad the legislation should be, whether it should cover forced labour solely, for example, or whether it should be expanded, as some governments have done, to cover more broadly human rights abuses or labour rights abuses generally. The third question is the degree or scale of entities that need to be captured with the legislation. The fourth question is really around what compliance and enforcement look like, whether you take approaches such as what the U.K. and Australia have done or take more robust enforcement measures such as what the French government has done.
These are all policy questions that are being worked through currently, but I cannot provide you with a timeline at this point, I regret, as to when the government may choose to introduce that legislation.