Human rights advocates have criticized the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) for passively investing about $14 billion in companies that allegedly profit from slave labour camps in China.
Centre Ice Canadians, which describes itself as an advocacy group for centrist Canadians, has urged CPP to investigate two of its equity indices allegedly linked with Uyghur internment camps in China. 
“We are very attentive to what it means to be invested in China at this point in time, as well as the potential implications in the future,” CPP Senior Managing Director Michel Leduc said in a Feb. 7 letter to Centre Ice Canadians.
“We share your view that all companies in which we invest as well as our investment partners, including index providers, must consider relevant issues such as human rights in how they conduct their businesses,” Leduc said….