Canada’s modern slavery act sets the floor, not ceiling, for businesses to ensure ethical supply chains

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Open this photo in gallery: Highliner Trawlers sit idle in Lunenburg, NS. The company, which began scrutinizing its suppliers this fall, severed ties with Yantai Sanko Fisheries, a plant in China that is alleged to have used Uyghur forced labour.Sandor Fizli/The Globe and Mail High Liner Foods Inc. HLNFF learned the hard way about risks lurking in its supply chain. The Nova Scotia-based seafood company, which began scrutinizing its suppliers this fall, severed ties with Yantai Sanko Fisheries, a plant in China that is alleged to have used Uyghur forced labour. It took action after a journalism non-profit, the Outlaw...