Dear Valued Customers,
Thank you for your continued trust and we deeply value your business with us and appreciate the opportunity to serve you. Mid-way through 2023, the Canadian Government passed a Modern Slavery Act, and Fairfax. We, at Bedessee Sporting Goods, diligently abide and follow the below codes of conduct in our business.
Updates Below:
Partner Code of Conduct
Bedessee Sporting Goods aims to establish and maintain ethical and responsible working relationships with its vendors and customers. It is imperative that our vendors and their suppliers uphold highest ethical standards in their workplace and their business practices, conduct and polices. Failure to uphold these standards can result in termination of the vendor partner relationship. Bedessee Sporting Goods reserves the right to perform compliance audits, which includes but it is not limited to requests for the completion of questionnaires, certifications of adherence, disclosure of compliance deficiencies, facilitating site visitsand the provision of the results of internal compliance diligence, reviews or audits.
STATEMENT ON MODERN SLAVERY
Fairfax and its subsidiaries (“we” or “us”) are forced on operating in compliance with all applicable laws and in a socially responsible way. We strive to do business with suppliers who share these values and commitments.
The Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act (Canada) (S.C.2023, c.9) (the “Act” requires us to diligence our supply chain with respect to the potential use of forced labour or child labour in any step of the production of our goods (including the manufacturing, growing, extracting or processing our goods) or of goods we import into Canada. Accordingly, we are seeking assurances from our suppliers that no forced labour or child labour is used by them or within their supply chains in respect of any goods we currently, or in the future may, purchase from them. Under the Act, “child labour” and “forced labour” are defined as follows:
“Child labour” is labour or services provided or offered to be provided by persons under the age of 18 years that:
(i) Are provided or offered to be provided in Canada under circumstances that are contrary to the laws applicable in Canada;
(ii) Are provided or offered to be provided under circumstances that are mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous to them;
(iii) Interfere with their schooling by depriving them of the opportunity ot attend school, obliging them to leave school prematurely or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work; or
(iv) Constitute the worst forms of child labour as defined in article 3 of the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999. (See: Convention C182 – Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) (ilo.org))
“Forced labour” is labour or services provided or offered to be provided by a person under circumstances that:
(i) Could reasonably be expected to cause the person to believe their safety or the safety of a person known to them would be threatened if they failed to provide or offer to provide the labour or service; or
(ii) Constitute forced or compulsory labour as defined in article 2 of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, adopted in Geneva on June 28, 1930. (See: Convention C029 – Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) (ilo.org))
All of our suppliers have entered into a Supplier Partnership Agreement, agreed and certified the acceptance of and compliance to the above code of conduct as follows:
1) Read and understood this Supplier Certification.
2) They will maintain, sufficient diligence in their operations and supply chain to identify the use of child labour or forced labour in any goods that they may supply to any of us. They will make any such relevant information available to us upon our request.
3) They have not identified any use of child labour or forced labour in their operations or in the operations of any of their supply chain in respect of any goods that they may supply to us.
4) To the extent they identify any use of the child labour or forced labour in their operations or in the operations of any of their supply chain in the future, they will immediately inform us.
5) They agreed to take appropriate remedial action if indicators of forced labour or child labour are found within their organizations or supply chains. Remedial action may include the development of a corrective action plan, termination of the supply relationship, or other actions as appropriate.
6) Our business relationship with suppliers may be terminated (including any purchase order(s) any purchase contacts(s) if any of their certifications in this Supplier Certification are false or they breach any or their agreements in this Supplier Certification.
Melvin John