Remember, this is what they mean by economic “sovereignty” and “elbows up.” Canada is fundamentally a tool of imperialism and settler-colonialism, and it should be no surprise that its borders protect most of the world’s mining corporations.

Wow, more public money going to private companies, awesome, and it is to destroy the land? Sick. So happy.

The best thing for capitalists in this country was Trump, you can say shit is “for Canadians” and libs will just fucking eat it up.

Right, I get what it is saying it will do, what I’m asking is how this could even be enforced in a system that is so dependent on coerced and child labour. The Liberals want a closer tie with the Chinese state, so I can’t see how this could be passed and enforced effectively within even that context, let alone the fact that coerced labour exists in the US, has for decades, and is not even recognized as such by Canadians (exactly because it is racialized and formalized in a way that occludes the coercive nature of that carceral system). Those are big trading partners with Canada, so it isn’t surprising if it isn’t enforced there, but then if it is enforced, that would mean the countries it is enforced on would be subjected to this ban and increased scrutiny because of their position of power relative to Canada and other imperial forces, not because they are exceptional in their fostering of coerced and child labour.

Since S-211 already defined child and forced labour and mandated reporting by entities (and did so in a way that even applies to labour conditions in Canada and the US), why is this additional measure necessary and how is it effective in ways that S-211 is defficient? The specific thing about C-251 appears to be the introduction of the power to hold goods suspected to be from supply chains that make use of coerced and child labour and to preemptively identify certain goods and areas as suspect and restrict or ban importation on that merit. Coffee, chocolate, and oil all come from economies that make use of coerced and child labour, let alone the supply chains for precious metals required for computer manufacturing. Canada itself and corporations based within its borders play a large part in the maintainence of brutal working conditions that include coerced and child labour, which means that this law would set precedents for similar restrictions on Canadian goods in other countries if it is indeed meant to curb these practices globally.

So like, again, I’m curious how this is meant to work in a way that isn’t just the formalization of racist trade practices without it becoming a coercive tool to use on smaller, global south economies that the Canadian state wishes to exercise more power over.

They’re not gonna, a requirement for the direction they want Canada’s economy to go in is the continued exploitation of workers within the state’s borders. They’re going to respond with a number of neoliberalized subsidy programs at most to deflect criticism for a few years. If we’re lucky, some tax credits. Libs having a majority has basically left us on our own, start focusing on municipal and provincial politics and see what can be done at those levels (which is a lot).

Is there anyone here who has the legal knowledge to explain how Bill C-251 would in any way challenge the oppression of Uyghurs specifically? I’m not qualified to understand how this law would function in practice based on precedent, but it seems like an intentional formalization of racist trade practices.

Canada’s economy is, in reality, dependent on coerced and child labour, and it isn’t like liberals are actually concerned about that. So, when I see something would purportedly provide the state with the explicit power to prohibit importation from specific areas or countries, I can only imagine its enforcement would be to the detriment of more challenging global-south nations and not like, the US or China.

They want you to be anti-science and anti-empathy because they want you to sign off on your own oppression. Chuds have accepted that reality conflicts with their worldview, so they have chosen unreality as their only platform.