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Charles Burton Contributors

Publishing · On our record since 2023

Where this writer stands

Foreign affairs1 piece

Alliance restraintAssertive alliances and sanctions

“C-35 is the chance to prove that bet wrong, but only if the Carney government is prepared to write the one word that every credible Uyghur forced labour policy requires: Xinjiang.” Read the piece

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Recent work

Canada is trying to stop importing goods made by forced labour. Here is why it is not workingOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 8, 2026
Exactly whose interests would be revealed in a Foreign Influence Registry Act?Opinion · Toronto Star · Apr 23, 2023