Carney: Forced Labor in China a Global Concern

Prime Minister Mark Carney just called.

Force Labor a global problem, straight up saying,

parts of China carry higher risks for it.

Reporters grilled him on whether it's happening there

and he didn't dodge confirmed.

It's an issue we gotta watch everywhere.

This comes right as Finance Minister Francois Philippe Champagne

heads to China this week for talks.

Plus, last week, liberal MP Michael Ma had to apologize

after casting doubt on human rights abuses

in a committee hearing.

Carney's been tracking this for years,

pointing out child labor and force labor pop up worldwide,

even in developed spots.

He stressed, we can't assume it's absent anywhere

and gotta stay sharp on it.

UN experts dropped a report earlier this year,

flagging a pattern of state imposed force labor

on ethnic minorities across Chinese provinces severe.

Enough, they called it potential crimes against humanity.

China denies it all, but Carney says it'll be

on the table in trade chats, keeping the pressure on

as these talks unfold.

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