After much fanfare, Canada has hardly used the Sergei Magnitksy Law to target human-rights abusers

Bill Browder in Toronto on Nov. 8.Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail Bill Browder, the U.S.-born financier who successfully campaigned for Western countries' adoption of a law to target human-rights abusers, says he's concerned Canada is only infrequently employing its version of what's called Sergei Magnitsky legislation to target wrongdoers around the world. In 2017, under then-foreign affairs minster Chrystia Freeland, a friend of Mr. Browder, Canada joined an international effort to adopt versions of the Magnitsky legislation, named after Sergei Magnitsky, a whistle-blower who died in a Moscow prison. The Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, or JVCFOA,…