The relevant law is now in the House of Commons.
The Canadian government will support the law, allowing the country imposing sanctions against the human rights abusers abroad. First of all, it refers to the representatives of Russia, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada Chrystia Freeland said, Correspondent.net reports quoting Bloomberg.
The government pushes for the expansion of authorities on the imposition of sanctions “for including the cases of gross violations of human rights and foreign corruption”, Freeland told the House of Commons on Wednesday.
“In Canada and the whole world, the question of sanctions in human rights and the case of Sergei Magnitsky sparked much interest and rightly so”, - the Canadian Minister, who is ethic Ukrainian, added.
As reported, Sergei Magnitsky was the lawyer of Hermitage Capital Management. He died in Moscow prison in 2009 after he accused the officials of the tax evasion, amounting to USD 230 mln.
The agency notes that the law was already approved by the Canadian Senate last month and is now in the House of Commons, where the ruling liberals have majority, what guarantees its approval. According to Freeland, the government have small technical amendments to the law.
As Correspondent.net reported, in 2014, Russia banned the entry of Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland. In January 2017, it became known that Freeland declined the transaction with RF for the cancellation of sanctions against her.
