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Liberal and Conservative Parties have committed to action ..

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It is encouraging that both the Liberal and Conservative Parties have committed to action on this front. On Dec. 1, MP Michelle Rempel-Garner raised this during Question Period: “(W)e are going to need a lot of rare earth minerals in order to build things like batteries for electric powered cars, but we know that in certain countries, child labour is what supports the mining of those particular minerals. Would the Prime Minister commit to sourcing rare earth minerals for the batteries that power Canadian electric cars from fair trade Canadian mines as opposed to offshoring our jobs to child foreign labour?”To which Prime Minister Trudeau agreed: “(T)here is an alternative to minerals from China right here in Canada, whether it is cobalt or nickel or lithium or copper or other metals that are essential in the production of the technologies that we use every day and will lean on even more into the future. Canada can be a strong, safe, reliable supplier of these minerals to ourselves and to our allies around the world. That is exactly what we are moving forward on.Secondly, Canada is in desperate need of improved supply chain legislation for all our imported goods. Senator Julie Miville-Dechne’s recently reintroduced Bill S-211 (Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act) aims to hold Canadian companies responsible to ensure their supply chains are free of modern slavery and child labour. We urge the government to support this bill or introduce their own supply chain legislation. https://ipolitics.ca/2021/12/02/fighting-climate-change-cant-come-at-the-expense-of-human-rights/