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Trading values for access: Canada, China, and the cost of looking away

  • Canada’s bargaining position with China is not strong, but it has a deeply troubling human rights record, including the odious practice of forced labour.
Opinion | BY JOHN MCKAY, INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE | January 12, 2026
Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Prime Minister Mark Carney. The Government of Canada has shown an increased interest in expanding commercial ties with China, write former Liberal MP John McKay and ISG Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Trading values for access: Canada, China, and the cost of looking away

Opinion | BY JOHN MCKAY, INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE | January 12, 2026
  • Canada’s bargaining position with China is not strong, but it has a deeply troubling human rights record, including the odious practice of forced labour.

Trading values for access: Canada, China, and the cost of looking away

Opinion | BY JOHN MCKAY, INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE | January 12, 2026
  • Canada’s bargaining position with China is not strong, but it has a deeply troubling human rights record, including the odious practice of forced labour.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Prime Minister Mark Carney. The Government of Canada has shown an increased interest in expanding commercial ties with China, write former Liberal MP John McKay and ISG Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

We don’t let children access porn offline. Why do we allow it online?

  • Bill S-210 is straightforward legislation that would require any website that offers porn to verify users' age, to set up a court-supervised enforcement mechanism,
Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, JOCELYN MONSMA SELBY, MARIANNE WILKINSON | February 14, 2024
The Senate adopted Independent Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne’s Bill S-210 in April 2023 with no opposition, but most Liberal MPs opposed it at second reading in the House of Commons. Unsplash photograph by Franco Alva

We don’t let children access porn offline. Why do we allow it online?

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, JOCELYN MONSMA SELBY, MARIANNE WILKINSON | February 14, 2024
  • Bill S-210 is straightforward legislation that would require any website that offers porn to verify users' age, to set up a court-supervised enforcement mechanism,

We don’t let children access porn offline. Why do we allow it online?

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, JOCELYN MONSMA SELBY, MARIANNE WILKINSON | February 14, 2024
  • Bill S-210 is straightforward legislation that would require any website that offers porn to verify users' age, to set up a court-supervised enforcement mechanism,
The Senate adopted Independent Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne’s Bill S-210 in April 2023 with no opposition, but most Liberal MPs opposed it at second reading in the House of Commons. Unsplash photograph by Franco Alva

The original sins of C-18

  • The fundamental problem lies in the premise Meta and Google somehow misappropriated news content and derived unfair benefits from links to this content.
Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE | October 25, 2023
Considering the current situation, the government may have no choice but to amend Bill C-18, writes Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne. Photograph courtesy of Pexels

The original sins of C-18

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE | October 25, 2023
  • The fundamental problem lies in the premise Meta and Google somehow misappropriated news content and derived unfair benefits from links to this content.

The original sins of C-18

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE | October 25, 2023
  • The fundamental problem lies in the premise Meta and Google somehow misappropriated news content and derived unfair benefits from links to this content.
Considering the current situation, the government may have no choice but to amend Bill C-18, writes Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne. Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Time to adopt legislation to address the human cost of low prices

  • The COVID pandemic has been many things to many people: a catastrophe, an opportunity, a chance to reassess priorities. For millions of us, it
Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, LIBERAL MP JOHN MCKAY | November 17, 2021
At a G7 Summit last month, International Trade Minister Mary Ng, pictured Nov. 16, signed a statement promising action on forced labour. The issue is global, and too complex and structural to be fixed by any one country’s intervention, write Independent Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne and Liberal MP John McKay. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Time to adopt legislation to address the human cost of low prices

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, LIBERAL MP JOHN MCKAY | November 17, 2021
  • The COVID pandemic has been many things to many people: a catastrophe, an opportunity, a chance to reassess priorities. For millions of us, it

Time to adopt legislation to address the human cost of low prices

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, LIBERAL MP JOHN MCKAY | November 17, 2021
  • The COVID pandemic has been many things to many people: a catastrophe, an opportunity, a chance to reassess priorities. For millions of us, it
At a G7 Summit last month, International Trade Minister Mary Ng, pictured Nov. 16, signed a statement promising action on forced labour. The issue is global, and too complex and structural to be fixed by any one country’s intervention, write Independent Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne and Liberal MP John McKay. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

It’s time for Canada and the G7 to make the fight against modern slavery a priority

  • The pandemic has exposed the extent to which our supply chains for consumer products of all kinds are tainted by forced and child labour
Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, LIBERAL MP JOHN MCKAY | June 2, 2021
World Vision reports that $3.7-billion worth of food was imported into Canada in 2019 that may contain child labour. We can no longer turn a blind eye, because collectively we are benefiting from this shameless exploitation elsewhere in the world to obtain cheap products on our markets, write Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne and MP John McKay. Unsplash photograph by Charles Gao

It’s time for Canada and the G7 to make the fight against modern slavery a priority

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, LIBERAL MP JOHN MCKAY | June 2, 2021
  • The pandemic has exposed the extent to which our supply chains for consumer products of all kinds are tainted by forced and child labour

It’s time for Canada and the G7 to make the fight against modern slavery a priority

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, LIBERAL MP JOHN MCKAY | June 2, 2021
  • The pandemic has exposed the extent to which our supply chains for consumer products of all kinds are tainted by forced and child labour
World Vision reports that $3.7-billion worth of food was imported into Canada in 2019 that may contain child labour. We can no longer turn a blind eye, because collectively we are benefiting from this shameless exploitation elsewhere in the world to obtain cheap products on our markets, write Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne and MP John McKay. Unsplash photograph by Charles Gao
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