Uyghur Canadians call for tougher law against Chinese goods produced by forced labor


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A worker packages spools of cotton yarn at a textile manufacturing plant in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 20, 2021.Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press Uyghur Canadians are urging Parliament to strengthen proposed legislation so that it bans imports from China’s western Xinjiang region, where Chinese authorities have established mass detention camps and forced Uyghurs and members of other Muslim groups to work in factories and on farms. The United States has already erected tough barriers to imports from Xinjiang. According to Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, an international advocacy group, this has resulted in China...