Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I would say a couple of things. First, on the point about the U.S. being ahead of us on the curve on legislation, I would just clarify on that point that the U.S. has not introduced supply chain reporting obligations on their entities, so the type of

Foreign Affairs committee  We are aware of the list. The Canada Border Services Agency is aware of the list as well, but I'm afraid I can't speak to how they may be utilizing the list in their enforcement. It is a list of goods in the U.S. that they presume to be at risk of potential exposure to forced la

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. I'm sure you would understand if I say that I can't comment on what the government's position may be with regard to that particular private member's bill, but what I can say is that, as we look at developing government legislation on this is

Foreign Affairs committee  I can answer that, Ms. Chen.

Foreign Affairs committee  I will just say very briefly on that point that we are aware of the ILO's study by their committee of experts on the application of conventions. As you noted, the ILO forced labour convention has not been ratified, which makes it difficult for the ILO to take action through their

Foreign Affairs committee  A technical point, if I may, Mr. Chair....

Foreign Affairs committee  I have just one point of clarification. Ms. Bendayan noted that ESDC has produced a report that Global Affairs will be putting on their website. If I could just clarify, that is not an ESDC study but a study that Global Affairs has commissioned from a different group.

Foreign Affairs committee  I haven't had discussions with them specifically about that, and again, I can't say whether my Canada Border Services Agency colleagues have had those discussions. I apologize.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I can't speak to whether there is any intention or plan to change legislative approaches to it. What I can say is that we continue to work on the operationalization of the ban, including a number of the things that I spoke about earlier on trying to a

Foreign Affairs committee  No, I apologize. I'm not aware of any specific measures that they may be using on those two products.

Foreign Affairs committee  CBSA works very closely with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, and I can't speak to the specifics of what information-sharing mechanisms they have in place, but they do have regular, I believe, biweekly conversations that take place. I don't know the specifics of tha

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I think the short answer to that would be, indeed, we are looking at different tools and measures that can be adopted to assist the Canada Border Services Agency. We did run a pilot, in fact, using artificial intelligence to try to trace bills of ladi

Foreign Affairs committee  What I would say to that is that we recognize there is still work that needs to be done to effectively operationalize the importation ban. As I noted at the outset, this is a complex endeavour to try to implement. We know there—

Foreign Affairs committee  I wouldn't phrase it as a similar interdepartmental task force, but there is collaborative work that is taking place with a number of departments across government to work on the import ban, and I do know that our colleagues at the Canada Border Services Agency do work closely wi

Foreign Affairs committee  I would say a couple of things to this. The first is that I would note that the U.S. has had the benefit of having this interdiction in place since 1930, so it's had a number of decades to work through operational challenges and to ensure that structures, systems and funding are