Forced labour in Burma was quite bad in the past. When the ILO, the International Labour Organization, got involved, the previous Burmese government decided on some kinds of standards, and even changed some laws preventing the use of forced labour in Burma, but still there is forced labour taking place in some parts of the country. Forced labour usually takes place if you are in a village where there is a development, such as a project to build a road, for example. All the people living in that village are supposed to contribute labour or money. If they cannot contribute, then there is some kind of repercussion. That is the way forced labour has been done in Burma.
Another important thing is that the Burmese government usually justifies forced labour as the traditional way; everybody is supposed to get involved in community development, and this has been the way of the Burmese for a long time. But that is not the case. In the international power investment areas, for example, we even have some forced labour issues reported in oil companies building pipelines in southern Burma, or even in northern Burma, which has a huge pipeline crossing the upper part of Burma from the Andaman Sea to China.
I think the Canadian government should have the ILO and other labour unions look at the situation and how far it's moving towards the way we want to see it.