The complaints allege that 12 companies in the clothing industry in Canada sold products made with forced labour in China, and two mining companies in China had operations linked with forced labour.
The watchdog set up by the federal government to probe corporate wrongdoing abroad is slow, ineffective
“I am full of anger and frustration with the CORE, to be honest. As you can see, it is almost a year. And I didn’t hear anything from CORE in terms of a tangible result – it is a lot of bureaucratic processes,” he said in an interview. The federal government had initially pledged to empower the CORE with investigatory powers such as the ability to compel the production of documents, but ultimately did not grant the office those powers when the office was launched. In fact, the CORE has no ability to force companies to take any specific actions.
“There is no sense of urgency,” he said, which he finds striking given the gravity of the situation in the region. “Why is it so difficult to cut through the red tape and get to the matter at hand and do something?” he asked. He also notes that much of the information about the alleged abuses in China are already in the public domain, from independent think tanks, media reports and in U.S. congressional reports.
Last week , The Globe reached out to the companies named for comment on the process and only four involved in the complaints filed last April responded.
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