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Internationally-Recognised Core Labour Standards in Canada (ICFTU) Canada has ratified only five of the eight core labour standards. In some areas Canada must take further measures in order to comply fully with the commitments Canada accepted at Singapore in 1996 and Geneva in 1998 in the WTO Ministerial Declarations and in the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work adopted in June 1998.

Canada has ratified one of the ILO's two core conventions on trade union rights. While freedom of association is generally respected in Canada, interference of both the federal and provincial governments of Canada in the collective bargaining process violates the trade union rights of public employees, and continued throughout the 1990s despite strong criticism of Canada by the ILO.

Canada has ratified both the ILO's core conventions on discrimination. While the law is generally in compliance with those conventions, in practice women continue to receive much lower remuneration than men. Disabled people and aboriginal peoples are greatly under-represented in the work force.

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