Federal government urged to take action against eight Chinese seafood companies over alleged abusive labour practices

Two human-rights groups are petitioning the federal government to impose sanctions on eight Chinese companies over alleged rights violations, including forced labour and abuse of deckhands, committed on board Chinese squid fishing vessels.The Human Rights Action Group and the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project want to see products associated with these companies blocked from entering the Canadian market, and say the federal government has taken “no action” so far on forced-labour imports, unlike the U.S.