Foreign Affairs committee  As I said previously, we are working on developing legislation of this nature. It is a commitment of the government to introduce it. I spelled out earlier some of the key policy considerations that need to be taken into account to introduce that legislation, but unfortunately, I

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't believe anyone here would have data on how many shipments have come into Canada at this point. We don't have customs information along those lines. I don't know whether the Canada Border Services Agency would have that information.

Foreign Affairs committee  I would say a couple of things on that. The first is that I'd have to defer largely to the Canada Border Services Agency, which is the group responsible for enforcing the ban. What I would say around the general idea of a region-wide ban is that part of the challenge is that C

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. Thank you for the question. I would just clarify at the outset that I wouldn't necessarily frame the French legislation as the most robust. I've noted that it has more robust enforcement measures than what the British or Australian legislation has in place. The challenge w

Foreign Affairs committee  I couldn't provide specific details around that. What I can say is what I indicated earlier around the key components of supply chain legislation that need to be developed from a policy perspective. That is some of the work that is under way right now. We held consultations prev

Foreign Affairs committee  Not to my knowledge, no.

Foreign Affairs committee  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

Foreign Affairs committee  Very briefly, Mr. Chair, each regime and government needs to decide within their own legislation what enforcement actions are more feasible. The one thing I will note around rebuttal or presumptive bans is that there are challenges, as I said at the outset, in ascertaining on a

Foreign Affairs committee  Not to my knowledge, Mr. Chair.

Foreign Affairs committee  My apologies, I'm not quite certain I understand the question. Are you seeking greater information on goods that have been seized to date?

Foreign Affairs committee  You have my apologies. I think that would fall under the purview of the Canada Border Services Agency. As an enforcement agency, I know that they have guidelines around the information that they can share, both publicly and with other federal departments. I think it would be more

Foreign Affairs committee  I would say that Canada has demonstrated a commitment to addressing issues of forced labour, regardless of where it's taking place in the world. There are a number of different initiatives taking place across government to try to address some of these initiatives. I won't go into

Foreign Affairs committee  As Mr. Chong noted, the government has introduced a ban on the importation of goods produced by forced labour under CUSMA obligations. We continue to work with our colleagues at the Canada Border Services Agency, which is the entity responsible for interdicting goods that may com

Foreign Affairs committee  To my knowledge, I'm not aware of any shipments that have been stopped by the Canada Border Services Agency with polysilicon.

Foreign Affairs committee  To my knowledge, I believe that's correct. I'm not aware of any other shipments, and I should clarify, the shipment that I'm aware of was a clothing shipment, not a tomato-based shipment.