MP Garnett Genuis said he hopes a bill introduced in Parliament last summer will lead to more human rights violators getting sanctioned.
Bill C-281, a private member’s bill introduced by Conservative MP Philip Lawrence, seeks to amend several laws and for the Canadian government to put human rights abuses at the forefront, addressing issues such as misinformation or disinformation campaigns by authoritarian state-controlled or state-backed media, sanctioning actors involved in human rights violation and acts of terrorism.
“This is a powerful new tool we want to create that will shift Canadian foreign policy to be more responsive to human rights abuses around the world, and contains a number of different kinds of provisions requiring the government to report annually on its work on human rights,” Genuis told The Epoch Times on May 25….