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MPs call for House study after UN report slams Canada’s efforts to combat contemporary slavery, forced labour

‘Canada has a labour shortage … but we simply cannot be a nation that exploits other human beings in labour conditions that are such as the rapporteur has described,’ says Liberal MP John McKay.

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September 20, 2023

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Bill S-210 is straightforward legislation that would require any website that offers porn to verify users' age, to set up a court-supervised enforcement mechanism, and to reserve the process of approving specific age-verification methods for regulations.

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Unionized Jewish employees to take PSAC to Canadian Human Rights Tribunal over Israel-Hamas war

FeatureBY MIKE LAPOINTE

Plus, Cape Breton pounded with 150 cm of snow; Hill launch of Howard McCurdy's memoir in the House Speaker's Office on Feb. 20; Jean Augustine to deliver speech in Toronto; and Liberal MP John McKay and ISG Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne receive an award.

Hutchings to take part in talk on energy, emissions, and the economy in Atlantic Canada on Jan. 18

House adjourned, Commons scheduled to return Jan. 29, 2024

MPs call for House study after UN report slams Canada’s efforts to combat contemporary slavery, forced labour

‘Canada has a labour shortage … but we simply cannot be a nation that exploits other human beings in labour conditions that are such as the rapporteur has described,’ says Liberal MP John McKay.

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