Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  May I add just 10 seconds to Jo's answer?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The critical way, I think, and the only sustainable way, really, to ensure that supply chains are transparent is through freedom of association in the supply chains. A major garment company has recently stated that the only ethical way to ensure ethical business is to ensure that

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If we're talking about due diligence in relation to businesses, then I would agree with Jo that it's as easy to do due diligence on child labour as on forced labour. I'm quite aware of Milton Friedman's full quote, and my point is that in many parts of the world—not Canada—child

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sure. I think you have your finger on one of the most complex issues in relation to child labour, which is that very often the families who send their kids into child labour don't have any other choice or certainly don't feel they have any other choice. This goes back to Jo's r

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes. First of all, I think the fact that you're discussing due diligence as opposed to simply transparency is an extremely important step, because that will encourage and compel businesses to think about these issues much more broadly. I'm somewhat skeptical that the issue of c

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Jo may have a slightly different take on this. I personally would suggest there should be an office within the Canadian government that has the power to exclude from Canadian markets goods that are tainted with child, forced, or slave labour. That should be a discretionary power,

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm sorry; is that question for me or for Jo?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's Ms. Becker or Dr. McQuade.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think where there is the most progress is in the chocolate sector. In significant part that's because in 2003 there was a film made by the British Channel 4 that exposed the issue of trafficking in forced child labour in Côte d'Ivoire in particular. This caused a significant sh

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm here already.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The challenge to eliminating child labour and forced labour I think is captured by the number 5.5 million. If you look at the 2005 forced labour estimates, the estimate of child slavery in the world was 5.5 million. In 2012, that number was 5.5 million. In 2017, the number has ri