How Canada is Involved

Everyone in the world is involved together in one way or another. This means that Canada has to be somehow involved in the child labour that is happening in Brazil. How though? You might ask. Well, there are both good and bad ways, people living in Canada have the option to buy fair trade products. This basically means that the product that they are purchasing has been made using no child labour and the people who have made it were paid properly. The problem is that these products tend to cost more than their competitors; the price discourages the buyers and causes them to just buy whatever is cheapest or the buyers just don’t know if what their buying is made fairly or not. For example a poll was done to 1,007 Canadians asking if they knew where the items they bought came from and 82% of them said that they didn’t and never bothered checking.  Majority of the citizens are guilty of this including me but it think we should try to be ethical and pay that little bit of extra money and do our research so that in result we can help out the children that are being taken advantage off. There are other ways that Canada is involved with child labour and one of them is the amount of things we buy off of Brazil. In 2013 Canada bought around 3.5 billion dollars in exports from Brazil. With that huge of an amount of products there is no way that everything was background checked to make sure it was made fairly. As long as countries like Canada keep buying such huge amounts from countries like Brazil without checking where it comes from child labour is going to keep going.