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Canadian solar promises an independent investigation of whether any workers in its supply chain are there against their will. A subsidiary of the Guelph, Ontario-based company was sanctioned by the U.S. government over allegations of forced labour . The company, GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd., has a network of companies in China that has employed people from a Chinese government program to transfer people, many of them Uyghurs, to industrial workplaces. The Chinese authorities’ treatment of the largely Muslim Uyghur community has been called genocide by Canada’s Parliament. Human rights groups believe China has detained more than one million Uyghurs against...
