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9 Jan 2011

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CBC News [Canada]

Chinese prison-made goods enter Canada: report

An Alberta company has been importing products made at a Chinese prison camp, according to...Laogai Research Foundation. Canada bans the importation of any goods made by prison labour, but...prison-made goods are turning up in Canada. "Inland Screw Piling imported products from Xinxiang Zhongke Mining Equipment Company. The address for the Chinese enterprise is the same address as the Chinese prison camp," said Michael Mignano, research associate at Laogai Research Foundation...Harry Knelsen [Inland Screw Piling] president...told CBC News that he was shocked his supplier was a Chinese prison and that he would never have bought the goods had he known...

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