While many are aware that the Government of Canada under Prime Minister Harper is one of the most regressive governments in the world on environmental and indigenous rights policy, few are likely aware that the Harper Administration is actively promoting the importation of slave labor. As Thomas Walkom reports at The Star, the new Canadian labor policy turns back the clock by a century.
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