Companies will regret not co-operating with Canada's watchdog for corporate abuses

Open this photo in gallery: An alleged detention facility in Artux in Kizilsu Prefecture in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region on July 19.PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Images Oliver Cushing is the chief executive of the human-rights technology, consultancy and training company RightsDD. The new Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), the country's watchdog for corporate abuses outside Canada, has had a busy summer. On Aug. 24, it published initial assessment reports on three companies: Diesel Canada Inc., Hugo Boss Canada Inc. and Walmart Canada Corp. These are in addition to the first four reports it published, earlier this summer, on five other companies….