These are the Canadian values, right Scotty?

• UN expert sounds alarm over ‘contemporary forms of slavery’ in Canada https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1140437
• Systemic racial discrimination via discriminatory funding causing "Millennium Scoop" class action certified; long-term reform negotiations ongoing. https://decisions.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/chrt-tcdp/decisions/en/item/521231/index.do?iframe=true
• Crisis fueled by human trafficking linked to resource extraction "man camps"; systemic inaction continues. https://afn.ca/all-news/press-releases/assembly-of-first-nations-afn-releases-2025-progress-report-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls-mmiwg-calls-for-justice-highlighting-human-trafficking-crisis/#to-top
• Failure to legislate a human right to safe water and diversion of settlement funds from critical services. https://siksikanation.com/carney-government-reaches-new-low-on-first-nation-safe-drinking-water/
• Slavery charges against Canadian mining company settled on the sly https://theconversation.com/slavery-charges-against-canadian-mining-company-settled-on-the-sly-148605

At this point, I would rather be driving Chinese slave labour over American 'definitely not slave' labour.

At least China is trying to reduce it, instead of filling up prisons and granting billions of dollars to modern day Gestapo against court order specifically to make the slavery legal.

Meanwhile as posted on Lemmy major NA and Japanese car ceo's are crying they can't compete with the automation out of China. https://moneywise.com/auto/auto/toyota-honda-ford-ceos-warning-china-portfolio

So I'm less inclined to believe there's as much of a forced labor issue as claimed.

...American forced prison labour has entered the chat

You know, I hear there are several things other than electric cars that Canada also imports from China. Enough so that all the focus on EVs looks a little sus.

We don't use slave labour in Canada. We just ignore a whole shitload of people who slip through the cracks because of little opportunity and they end up drug addicted in the center of most small towns and cities. We are morally superior. /s

Westerners are just trying to come up with as much bullshit as possible to convince each other to take a bad deal.

Cocoa, cobalt, and coffee are okay. But god forbid anyone buys anything that interferes with the profits of our rulers.

There are human rights concerns in almost every product we import, this is a weird spot to draw the line.

Nothing says Canadian Values like the noble TFW program that has for sure never been used to exploit cheap foreign labour.

Who do you think made the onboard chip of your truck or your Tesla ? Now let’s talk about the anti suicide net in the Apple Chinese factories

It's so great of a fit then. Canadian values appear to be using migrant wage slaves, so this goes hand in hand.

After watching it, it looks like a non-issue. Clean Energy Canada agrees with no forced labour but disagrees with blanket banning China and going for a targeted approach on Chinese companies that don't follow -- like the Clean Energy Canada lady said about iPhones and everything else.

How convenient it's supposed to be a "good first step" when we've walked a goddamn mile in this already. Let's do this when we need it for this specific use-case and not a moment beforehand.

Well, the word "robot" has it's linguistic root in the Slavic word "rab" meaning "slave", so yeah, there's that.