Canada Pension Plan Signals Exit From Alleged China Slave Labour Investments

A woman holds a sign at a demonstration calling on the British Parliament to vote to recognize persecution of China's Muslim minority Uyghur people as genocide and crimes against humanity in London on April 22, 2021. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images

Human rights advocates have criticized the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) for passively investing about $14 billion in companies that allegedly profit from slave labour camps in China.

Centre Ice Canadians, which describes itself as an advocacy group for centrist Canadians, has urged CPP to investigate two of its equity indices allegedly linked with Uyghur internment camps in China.