Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, you inherited the mandate letter of the Prime Minister to the previous minister.. In that letter, it says, “With the support of the Minister of Public Safety, the Minister of Public Services and Procurement and the Minister of International Trade...introduce legislation to eradicate forced labour from Canadian supply chains”. That's from 2021.
I asked the Minister of International Trade at committee in 2022 what's been accomplished. The answer was zero. You've seized absolutely zero goods made with forced labour from China.
Now, contrast that with $3.62 billion seized by the United States. This is an abysmal failure by you and by your government to crack down on forced labour, which has enabled China to continue to use forced labour.
You understand what forced labour is, right? They are abusing people and these goods are coming into Canada untouched.
What do you have to say to Uyghurs, whose labour is being forcibly use, about your complete and absolute catastrophic failure to do anything to stop these goods from coming into Canada?