NEWS Slave labour drives remediation program to address any Canada’s customs tariff amendments non-compliance and adverse human On July 1, 2020, amendments to Canada’s rights impacts caused by the use of Customs Tariff and the Schedforced labour in your business and its ule to the Customs Tariff took supply chains. effect, officially prohibiting from • Develop, roll-out and implement interimportation into Canada goods nal and supplier communications, stakethat are mined, manufactured holder engagement, employee training, or produced wholly or in part by supplier codes of conduct and effective forced labour. “Forced labour” procurement and contracting practices is commonly defined to be all to address the risk of forced labour in work or service which is exacted your business or its supply chains. from any person under the Further information from the federal govmenace of any penalty and for ernment and the Canadian Border Serwhich the said person has not vices Agency (CBSA) as to how this prohioffered herself or himself volunbition will be enforced is still forthcoming. tarily. “Wholly or in part” would reasonably include the presence Loferski appointed of forced labour anywhere in a Bostik director of marketing Wauwatosa, supply chain. According to the Wis.-based Bostik, international law firm Gowla specialty ing WLG, Canada now joins adhesives and the U.S., the U.K., Australia and installation many other of its other trading systems for partners that have already taken building construclegislative and regulatory steps tion, recently to combat modern slavery. announced that Canadian boards of directors Erik Loferski Eric Loferski has and CEOs must now take acjoined the tion, advises the firm. Here are company as director of marketing, five things Canadian businesses Consumer & Construction Business Unit must do, it urges: • Take steps to map your supply — North America. Loferski was most recently director of marketing at Milwauchains and understand the kee, Wis.-based commercial plumbing implications of this new proproduct supplier Zurn Industries. Prior to hibition on your operations, that, he was at Wigwam Mills of Sheboyprocurement practices and an, Wis., and Milwaukee, Wis.-based supply chains. Briggs & Stratton. • Conduct risk-based due diligence of your supply chains Church partnership to assess whether forced lato help create affordable homes bour is present. Investments made by the Government • Develop and implement efof Canada and a partnership with the fective internal controls and a compliance and reporting pro- Toronto, Ont.-based United Church of Canada, means that up to 5,000 new gram to monitor and report affordable housing units will be built on whether the prohibition around the country over the next 15 against forced labour is being years. The federal government Affordable adhered to within your busiHousing Innovation Fund is providing the ness and its supply chains. United Church of Canada’s newly formed • Develop and implement a 10 November/December 2020
United Property Resource Corporation (UPRC), with a $20 million line of credit to be accessed for pre-development and pre-construction costs as the UPRC builds affordable housing across Canada. The UPRC will develop over 200 strategic sites in the United Church of Canada’s land inventory. More than 30 projects are currently under development by the UPRC, with a minimum of LEED Gold Certification or equivalent to be pursued for each project. At least 10 percent of units in a project will meet or exceed minimum local building code requirements for accessibility. Shaw expands U.S. SPC floor manufacturing
Shaw Industries Group is expanding its resilient manufacturing capabilities in Ringgold, Ga. The company is investing approximately $20 million US to add to its existing SPC manufacturing at Plant RP. The latest installment — part two of an anticipated three-phased expansion — will come online in Q1 2021 with an additional phase of expansion being fully realized by Q1 2022. Shaw started manufacturing LVT in the facility in 2016. M-D welcomes Fredrik Olsson as v.p. of sales Fredrik Olsson joined the Professional division of Mississauga, Ont.-based M-D Building Products as the new v.p. of sales. Olsson initially gained his flooring experience during a tenure at Atlanta, Ga.-based The Home Depot where he
