27-06-2018 19:14 via ottawacitizen.com

Glavin: Tough Canadian sanctions against Myanmar have hit a wall. Why?

When Canada joined the United Kingdom and the United States last October in adopting a new and innovative international mechanism to isolate and quarantine globetrotting police-state thugs and their dirty money, hopes were high. But so far, the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, more commonly known as the Magnitsky law, appears to be gathering dust.
Canada’s adoption of the law, which allows the federal government to freeze the assets of human rights abusers, was a rare
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