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This mountain of rubble is a monument[br]to the 1100 lives lost here last April,

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when this garment factory [br]collapsed in Bangladesh,

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unleashing the stories that [br]has long been locked inside.

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A thousand people died and[br]no one said a thing.

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Do you recognize these shorts?

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We meet the people who make your clothes,

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and find out where those cloths were made.

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This your address.[br]This is where this came from.

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The truth that retailers don't [br]want you to know.

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You've been hit.　You've been hit.

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Do any of you worry that one day[br]you may die in your factory?

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Of course. Of course.

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Dangerous factories.

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And dark secrets.

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Hi, I'm Mark Kelly and welcome[br]to "The Fifth Estate."

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I'm standing by the rubble[br]of what was once Rana Plaza.

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When the 8-story factory [br]collapsed in April,

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a frantic search for survivors began.

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So too did the search for answers.

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How, the world wondered, could a[br]disaster like this happen?

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We'll join that search when[br]we learned many of the victims

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died here making cloths for[br]Canadian consumers.

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Along the way, we uncovered this ledger[br]pulled from the rubble

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and using the information inside here

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we spent months piecing together clues

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that would reveal how and where [br]your cloths are being made.

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And what we would also discover is that

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the disaster that happened here [br]was no accident.

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Fashion is built on an image [br]of beauty, glamour and style.

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Creations that not only make you[br]look good, but feel good.

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Cloths without a conscience.

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The reality of the fashion[br]industry is far less glamorous.

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A reality Canadian retailers[br]don't want you to know about.

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It's known as the race to the bottom,[br]where the cheapest prices win.

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A race that created fast fashion.

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And that's why today, many of your cloths

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bear the label made in Bangladesh.

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It was that glamour [br]of the fashion industry

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that spoke to Sujeet Sennik.

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Even as a teenager Growing up in[br]the suburb in Toronto.

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I'm from a South Asian family.

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My father is a doctor.

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And they wanted me to sort of[br]follow that path.

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I was super creative, [br]so it was a way for me to say,

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hey listen, there's a job for me.

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It's an actual commercial career.

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He went to a couture school and[br]turned a dream into a dream job:

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designing for Christian Dior and[br]Balenciaga in Paris.

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It was like a fish finding a pond.

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It gave me a way out, [br]a way to, you know, lead my own life.

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It gave me my freedom, [br]and it gave me everything.

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But the growing popularity and [br]increasing demand for fast fashion

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led him back to Toronto to design [br]$20 blouses for Walmart.

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Instead of Paris, his fashion[br]focus was Bangladesh.

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There was a natural flow [br]towards Bangladesh

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because of fast fashion [br]in the last ten years.

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And trying to get clothes[br]cheaper and cheaper.

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But I think when the recession[br]hit people ran for the price,

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you know, it was Mecca.

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It was Mecca.

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But the road to Mecca decimated [br]Canada's garment industry.

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From 2001 to 2010, 75,000 jobs[br]were lost here.

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Many deep-rooted manufacturers[br]had a stark choice...

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Move or close.

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My great-grandfather was a rag dealer.

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He used to go from Sherbrooke to[br]Montreal in a horse and buggy,

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buying rags from the farmers.

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Barry Laxer's family has been [br]in the garments business

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in Montreal and Toronto [br]for 3 generations

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but he was forced to [br]pack it all up for price.

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My single largest customer[br]that at the time in Canada

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accounted for over 50% of our volume

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told us that to continue doing business

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we need to find a lower cost [br]manufacturing base somewhere else.

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And that was Bangladesh.

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It turned out to be Bangladesh.

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Companies around the world were [br]now beating a path to Bangladesh.

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From H&M to Walmart, Nike and the GAP.

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Barry Laxer joined that garment Gold Rush.

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Today, his company Radical Designs

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runs two factories outside Dhaka,[br]the capital of Bangladesh.

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At least half the machines in[br]this factory all came from Canada.

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We had like 80 containers of[br]machinery that came here.

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You just rushed it over[br]here to do business.

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We just, it wasn't doing[br]anything in Toronto.

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Now he employed more than 1000 people

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and he pays them 3 times the minimum wage.

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When you own a factory,

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nothing is better than walking[br]through and seeing it full.

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And busy.

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And busy, yeah.

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You've built quite an empire here, Barry.

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What's the allure for companies[br]to come to Bangladesh?

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Here, the real allure is labour.

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The workers will work for wages[br]that most countries won't,

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because there's no alternative.

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Working for next to nothing is[br]better than working for nothing.

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In real terms, next to nothing [br]is $38 a month...

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or 24 cents an hour.

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The lowest garment worker [br]wage on the planet.

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The floodgates for [br]Canadian business opened

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when Ottawa dropped import duties [br]from Bangladesh in 2003.

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Canadian companies like Lululemon, [br]HBC and Walmart Canada

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climbed aboard the Bangladeshi band wagon.

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The result, imports grew by 618%.

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Some say the front-runner [br]in the race to the bottom

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was Loblaw brand Joe Fresh.

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These TV ads shows the appeal of[br]its cheap and cheerful clothing line.

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The line has bounced its way to[br]one of the top spots

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in the children's wear market in Canada.

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Speaking to the CBC in 2010[br]the company president said

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he's just giving consumers [br]what they want.

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They wanted fashion,

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and they wanted fashion [br]that would play across the country

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and they needed it [br]at amazing price points.

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Joseph Mimran was now [br]a fast fashion icon.

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But just how low could prices go?

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Well look at this TV Ad for Walmart.

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Clearly, the lower the better.

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Now more styles, and more stylish

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all at unbelievable prices

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Exclusively at Walmart.

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For designers like Sujeet Sennik,

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beauty took a backseat to price.

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What was the pressure put on you[br]to make cheaper and cheaper clothes?

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Price is the starting point.[br]It's everything.

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It was down to...

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You got 6 buttons on your shirt,[br]take it down to 5.

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Can we take it down to 4?

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Sennik says he felt the pressure [br]from retailers to cut costs,

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and so did the factory owners.

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They can't say no to, to a[br]hundred thousand units.

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That means a very long time that

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the factory is going to be sitting idle[br]if they don't get that order.

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So they needed you.

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They need you. They need you.

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And, you know, at the end of the day,[br]that's not my decision,

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but, like...

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I started wondering, Mark,[br]I really started wondering,

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how is it possible for clothing to be[br]made at these low prices?

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It's a good question.

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Because while price was the priority,[br]there was signs worker safety was not.

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In the decade before Rana Plaza,[br]hundreds of people died

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in factory fires and building [br]collapses in Bangladesh.

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Tragedy after tragedy, year after year,

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and no one in Canada[br]seemed to notice.

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That changed in the morning of April 24,

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when the eight-storey [br]Rana Plaza collapsed.

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More than 1100 people were killed.

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Hundreds are still missing,[br]

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believed to be buried in the rubble.

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Tell me what happened when[br]you learned about Rana Plaza.

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It was like, if you start [br]having nightmares

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and then they become real,

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that was what Rana Plaza was for me.

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The search for survivors [br]seemed to drag on and on.

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Save us brother, I beg you brother.

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I want to live.

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Sujeet remembers being called into [br]

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one particular meeting [br]after the collapse,

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where profits were put ahead of people.

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We were in a room full of people[br]when we were told we were connected.

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And no one said anything [br]about 1000 people.

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1000 people died, no one said a thing.

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They didn't, they didn't say[br]anything about them,

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they just talked about their -- [br]the loss in terms of units,

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how are they going to [br]make up their margins.

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People were talking about that.

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And I sat there, I said nothing.

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Shame on me.

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Walmart was just one of [br]dozens of companies

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that had used Rana Plaza.

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At the time of the collapse the[br]biggest company in the building

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was making clothes for Joe Fresh.

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Their pink and red pants were[br]found in the rubble

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along with the bodies [br]of the workers who made them.

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One week after the collapse,

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Joseph Mimran and [br]Loblaw chairman Gale Weston

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faced the glare of the media.

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This has been a -- quite a tragic event...

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ummm, and it's something that [br]has touched all of our hearts --

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It's been a very difficult [br]week for everybody.

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I'm troubled that despite [br]a clear commitment

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to the highest standards [br]of ethical sourcing

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our company can still be a part[br]of such an unspeakable tragedy.

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But just how deep was that [br]commitment to ethical sourcing?

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What did Canadian companies know about

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how their clothes were [br]being made in Bangladesh.

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And what did they do to find out?

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Sujeet wanted to find the truth.

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So he made a life-changing decision[br]and quit his job.

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I thought, I don't want to be[br]a part of this anymore.

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I can't be a part of this.

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So, I stopped.

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When we come back,

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Sueet's journey.

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Are we sending people to factories[br]knowing that there's a huge danger?

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And a teenaged garment worker [br]who survived the collapse.

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Welcome to the wild west [br]of the global garment industry.

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Bangladesh has one of the[br]world's densest populations,

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political instability and [br]world class corruption.

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And since the 90's, the economy has[br]grown by double digits,

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fueled by fast fashion.

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Factories sit unfinished,

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Just waiting for new floors to be added[br]to accommodate new business.

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And every morning, scenes like this[br]play out through the capital Dhaka,

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as 4 million garment workers[br]quietly file into work.

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They carry with them [br]memories of Rana Plaza,

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wondering if a tragedy like this [br]could happen to them.

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The Rana collapse [br]put Sujeet Sennik on a mission.

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The former fashion designer [br]from Walmart Canada

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now wanted to learn the truth

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about how the clothes [br]he designed were made.

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I had to find out for myself.

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Is this what my industry has been doing?

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Are we doing this on purpose?

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Are we sending people to factories

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knowing that there's a huge danger?

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Sujeet traveled with us to Bangladesh.

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First stop, a residential [br]neighborhood in Dhaka,

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an unlikely backdrop for the deadliest[br]accident in the garment industry

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before Rana Plaza.

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This is Tazreen.

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It's massive.

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November 2012.

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Fire broke out in the [br]Tazreen fashion factory,

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a 9-storey building, though the[br]owner only had a permit for 3 storeys.

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There were no fire escapes.

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Many doors were blocked by boxes.

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Windows were barred shut.

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Months before the blaze,

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the factory's fire safety[br]certificate had been revoked.

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Most of the 112 victims here[br]were burned alive.

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When the Tazreen factory fire[br]happened, I was horrified.

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All these fingers were [br]pointing all everywhere,

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and no one was saying, hey listen, maybe,

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maybe, we might have just a little bit[br]to do with this.

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Walmart did indeed have something [br]to do with this factory.

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Their Faded Glory shorts were[br]pulled from the ashes.

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The company tried to distance[br]itself from the tragedy,

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insisting Tazreen was not an[br]authorized Walmart factory.

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There's bars on every single window.

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How were these people [br]supposed to get out of here?

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There's no escaping.

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I wonder for you, Sujeet,

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what is this building...,[br]what is this a symbol of to you?

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I think it's shame.

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We should be ashamed of ourselves[br]to let something like this happen.

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How was it possible that [br]people didn't know that

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this factory was built this way?

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This woman emerged from [br]the crowd of the curious

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to tell us her story

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how workers knocked out [br]a ventilation fan,

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and how she survived by jumping [br]3 stories to the ground.

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Will you ever work again?

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Will you ever have another job[br]after your injuries here?

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How am I supposed to work?

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I'm afraid to work and [br]no one wants to take me.

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I cannot sit or lie down for a long time.

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I get better when I take medicine,

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but when I don't it's painful.

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With few prospects,

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she appears as disposable as the[br]fast fashion she once made here.

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This could have been one of my prints.

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You know, snakeskin's in.

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There it is.

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It could have been a shirt, a dress.

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Is it that important [br]that you have to bar people

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into a building to meet our deadlines?

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It's not, not for me.

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It's disgusting.

0:16:54.168,0:16:58.190
So how did Walmart's clothes [br]end up at such a dangerous factory?

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An investigation by Walmart[br]concluded one of its suppliers

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subcontracted part of the order[br]to Tazreen without their permission.

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But how hard would it be for[br]Canadian retailers to find out

0:17:14.184,0:17:16.962
where their clothes are being made?

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We wanted to find out,

0:17:18.401,0:17:22.596
so we bought a Walmart shirt in Canada [br]that Sujeet had designed.

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Shipping records led us to a factory [br]on the outskirts of Dhaka.

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The record named the factory:[br]Hasan Tanvir.

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Walmart publishes a list of[br]banned factories in Bangladesh,

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factories that have failed [br]the company's audits.

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And this factory has been [br]on that list since June.

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We made repeated requests [br]to visit the factory,

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but it wasn't until we showed up [br]with our camera

0:17:50.012,0:17:52.236
that the manager would even talk to us.

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Hi, my name is Mark.[br]I'm from Canada.

0:17:54.726,0:17:56.787
Canadian television, how are you?

0:17:56.787,0:17:58.014
Fine.

0:17:58.014,0:18:00.178
We want to see where[br]our clothes are being made

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and how they are being made.[br]And that's why we came over here.

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I want to go inside and visit.

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But even he wouldn't let us in.

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Instead, he passed us off [br]to another manager.

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Have you made this here?

0:18:20.093,0:18:25.081
We have a shipping record here[br]that shows that it was made here.

0:18:25.081,0:18:27.816
Hasan Tanvir Fashion Wears.

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This is your address.[br]This is where this came from.

0:18:30.818,0:18:33.348
That's not mine.

0:18:33.348,0:18:34.747
Hello?

0:18:39.522,0:18:40.912
Excuse me.

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He says he's never seen this before,[br]doesn't recognize it,

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despite the fact that [br]we showed it was in fact made

0:18:53.470,0:18:57.842
right there at[br]Hasan Tanvir Fashion Wears.

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Walmart puts it this way:

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they do make shirts here, [br]but not our shirt.

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In fact 3 months after [br]blacklisting this factory,

0:19:06.499,0:19:09.994
Walmart admits they are still [br]making clothes here...

0:19:09.994,0:19:12.980
one last order they say.

0:19:19.443,0:19:21.918
Since we couldn't get in [br]to meet the workers,

0:19:21.918,0:19:26.378
then we would take Sujeet to meet them[br]at home after work.

0:19:28.788,0:19:31.312
In this entire area here,

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everyone who lives here [br]works in a garment factory.

0:19:35.440,0:19:37.926
It's like a compound of [br]garment factory workers,

0:19:37.926,0:19:41.410
so we're going to go in and [br]meet some of them tonight.

0:19:41.410,0:19:42.378
Okay.

0:19:43.978,0:19:45.451
We'll be there tonight.

0:19:45.451,0:19:47.955
Wow.

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These are, 9 people [br]who work at the factory.

0:19:53.906,0:19:55.940
They asked us to hide their faces,

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fearing they'd lose their jobs [br]simply for talking to us...

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I want to know who are you [br]making garments for now

0:20:03.180,0:20:05.201
inside the factory.

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Canada, Canada, Canada.

0:20:08.169,0:20:11.567
We hear that there are problems[br]working inside Hasan Tanvir

0:20:11.567,0:20:15.710
and we had reports that there was a fire[br]at the factory recently.

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Can they tell us what happened?

0:20:18.899,0:20:22.072
When the fire really started to spread,

0:20:22.072,0:20:24.379
all the workers started to protest,

0:20:24.379,0:20:26.377
they broke the gates and escaped.

0:20:26.377,0:20:28.048
They didn't wanna let us out.

0:20:28.048,0:20:29.560
They never wanna let us out.

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They just want to turn off the[br]lights and keep us in there

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and say "sit down, shut up and work."

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Do any of you worry that one day[br]you may die in your factory?

0:20:43.839,0:20:45.801
Of course. Of course.

0:20:45.801,0:20:48.534
And it happened all the time.[br]It happened regularly.

0:20:48.534,0:20:53.400
Yeah, it happened all the time.[br]Every few days there's a fire.

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I want to know if...[br]if you recognize this shirt?

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If any of you recognize having made[br]this shirt over the past few months?

0:21:03.209,0:21:05.901
Is this something that you [br]made in the factory?

0:21:05.901,0:21:09.686
We showed them Sujeet's shirt[br]that we bought in Canada.

0:21:11.836,0:21:14.664
Yeah, it's from the 5th floor.

0:21:14.664,0:21:20.893
I made it when I used to [br]work on the 5th floor.

0:21:20.893,0:21:24.275
So she worked on this garment?

0:21:24.275,0:21:26.285
Yes.

0:21:26.285,0:21:33.173
I designed this garment.[br]I drew this garment.

0:21:33.173,0:21:37.578
Look, I did this...

0:21:37.578,0:21:43.786
So you put these two pieces together.[br]So you put the sleeve in.

0:21:43.786,0:21:46.637
Thank you.

0:21:48.567,0:21:52.727
How do you feel meeting[br]the woman who made your design?

0:21:52.727,0:21:56.030
I'm grateful to meet you.

0:21:56.030,0:21:58.884
I wanted to meet you.

0:22:02.144,0:22:08.459
It's nice to finally be able to see you

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and tell you that I think that [br]you should have a better life.

0:22:19.491,0:22:22.047
Coming up...

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Why were Joe Fresh clothes being made in [br]the death trap that was Rana Plaza?

0:22:28.102,0:22:33.372
We go inside a prison in Bangladesh[br]looking for answers.

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Every piece of clothing we wear [br]has a silent story stitched into it.

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The story of who made it and where.

0:23:05.786,0:23:11.441
When Rana Plaza collapsed in April,[br]those stories came spilling out.

0:23:11.441,0:23:17.343
So, did the clothes from the ill fated [br]factory ever make it to Canada?

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Well, we visited 6 stores in the[br]Toronto area, with a hidden camera,

0:23:22.049,0:23:26.128
3 months after the Rana Plaza collapse.

0:23:26.128,0:23:30.976
We found clothes made in Rana Plaza, [br]in sore after store.

0:23:30.976,0:23:32.544
So I have a question...

0:23:32.544,0:23:35.450
But you wouldn't know it [br]by asking the sales associates.

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There was really like, there was [br]really only one product

0:23:38.313,0:23:40.927
that we were making in that[br]particular factory.

0:23:40.927,0:23:43.259
It was like this line of[br]pants that we did

0:23:43.259,0:23:45.239
We never ended up getting them.[br]Like obviously,

0:23:45.239,0:23:48.494
like we just like, got rid of it[br]and everything.

0:23:48.494,0:23:51.390
It's doubtful that it was[br]from that factory.

0:23:51.390,0:23:55.124
That stuff that was made in that place[br]never even made it here.

0:23:55.554,0:23:59.041
Loblaw's shipping records [br]revealed all these styles,

0:23:59.041,0:24:04.237
hundreds of thousands of garments were [br]made in Rana Plaza before the collapse,

0:24:04.237,0:24:08.080
and sold in Joe Fresh sores this summer.

0:24:13.080,0:24:16.088
So how did clothes for Joe Fresh [br]end up beingmade

0:24:16.088,0:24:18.439
in the death-trap that was Rana Plaza?

0:24:18.439,0:24:20.672
Well, that's a question we had[br]for the factory owner.

0:24:20.672,0:24:23.003
The problem is he's behind bars,

0:24:23.003,0:24:25.705
charged with negligence[br]in the deaths of the workers.

0:24:25.705,0:24:28.601
So "The Fifth Estate" petitioned [br]the Bangladeshi government

0:24:28.601,0:24:30.142
for permission to speak with him.

0:24:30.142,0:24:33.582
The government eventually agreed[br]but with one condition.

0:24:33.582,0:24:37.259
Our camera would not be allowed[br]inside the prison.

0:24:39.006,0:24:44.302
As public outrage grew after the collapse,[br]Bazlus Adnan surrendered to police.

0:24:44.302,0:24:48.895
His three factories occupied[br]almost half of Rana Plaza.

0:24:48.895,0:24:53.438
We arrived at Dhaka Central Jail,[br]where he's waiting trial.

0:24:53.438,0:24:55.068
He began our interview saying

0:24:55.068,0:24:59.266
how he parlayed an $8000 loan [br]from his dad in 1992,

0:24:59.266,0:25:02.768
and turned it into a [br]$15 million a year business,

0:25:02.768,0:25:07.360
thanks in large part [br]to his best customer, Joe Fresh.

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Joe Fresh was my biggest client, [br]about $6 million year.

0:25:12.328,0:25:14.634
That is why I was going bigger.

0:25:14.634,0:25:17.519
He says he was eager to [br]please his biggest client,

0:25:17.519,0:25:23.066
so work had begun on Rana Plaza to add [br]a ninth floor for his booming business.

0:25:23.066,0:25:26.882
I asked whether he was under pressure [br]to make clothes cheaper... and faster...

0:25:26.882,0:25:28.878
Everybody is doing this.

0:25:28.878,0:25:30.703
They all squeezed me.

0:25:30.703,0:25:33.134
But Joe Fresh was a very good customer.

0:25:33.134,0:25:36.927
Their policy was just ship it on time.

0:25:37.597,0:25:39.554
Before my time was up for the interview,

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I asked him to name one Loblaw employee

0:25:42.114,0:25:47.280
who had ever visited his factory at[br]Rana Plaza before the collapse.

0:25:48.460,0:25:50.532
He couldn't.

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This ledger helps explain [br]how that could happen.

0:25:55.004,0:25:58.059
From the entries here, we[br]learned Loblaw placed orders

0:25:58.059,0:26:00.888
with a buying house in India[br]called House of Pearl,

0:26:00.888,0:26:06.194
who, in turn, placed Joe Fresh orders[br]with the factory at Rana Plaza.

0:26:06.194,0:26:07.834
House of Pearl, we learned,

0:26:07.834,0:26:12.173
hired inspectors to check the quality[br]of the clothes made in Rana Plaza,

0:26:12.173,0:26:15.815
but not to inspect building safety.

0:26:17.705,0:26:20.798
Outsourcing ethical[br]responsibilities to third parties,

0:26:20.798,0:26:24.292
enables companies like[br]Loblaw to distance themselves

0:26:24.292,0:26:26.705
from the work being done on the ground,

0:26:26.705,0:26:30.283
according to our [br]Canadian factory owner Barry Laxer.

0:26:30.963,0:26:34.167
You know, after Rana Plaza happened[br]all these realities were saying,

0:26:34.167,0:26:35.683
"well we didn't know."

0:26:35.683,0:26:39.143
Is that true? Did they not know [br]what was going on in this country?

0:26:39.143,0:26:42.514
A lot of companies just want[br]cheap manufacturing.

0:26:42.514,0:26:45.461
So, they don't really look.

0:26:47.301,0:26:48.815
Or ask the tough questions.

0:26:48.815,0:26:51.156
Or ask the questions,[br]because if you don't ask the questions,

0:26:51.156,0:26:53.049
you don't get the answers [br]that you don't want to hear.

0:26:53.049,0:26:56.177
Was the Rana Plaza collapse a[br]wakeup call?

0:26:56.177,0:26:58.969
I mean, do you really believe this [br]going to change anything here?

0:26:58.969,0:27:03.008
I think in the end a lot of [br]companies are continuing

0:27:03.008,0:27:06.497
just to look for margin and cost.

0:27:06.497,0:27:10.037
And -- and...

0:27:10.037,0:27:12.033
Ultimately that's why[br]they're here, right?

0:27:12.033,0:27:13.533
That's why they're here.

0:27:13.533,0:27:15.446
If that wasn't the issue,

0:27:15.446,0:27:19.783
they could be buying products[br]made in the United States or Canada.

0:27:23.373,0:27:28.294
We wanted to know more about the [br]working conditions inside Rana Plaza.

0:27:28.754,0:27:32.404
Who better to tell us than the[br]people who worked there.

0:27:33.134,0:27:34.547
After the collapse,

0:27:34.547,0:27:38.955
cameras captured this footage [br]of survivors recovering in a hospital.

0:27:40.105,0:27:45.149
We were intrigued by this girl, who was [br]trapped in the rubble for three days

0:27:45.149,0:27:48.762
pinned under two dead bodies.

0:27:48.762,0:27:51.513
She lost her mother, as well as her leg.

0:27:53.023,0:27:58.403
Both mother and daughter were[br]making clothes for Joe Fresh.

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Months after the collapse,[br]we finally found her.

0:28:10.448,0:28:12.516
Her name is Aruti.

0:28:12.516,0:28:18.019
She tells us she is 17, though[br]her grandmother says she is really 15.

0:28:18.019,0:28:21.279
A kid making kids clothes for Canadians.

0:28:23.969,0:28:26.742
Do you recognize these shorts?

0:28:26.742,0:28:28.884
Like these shorts.

0:28:30.004,0:28:32.557
Yeah.[br]These pants were there.

0:28:32.557,0:28:37.083
She sewed pocket seams,[br]150 pockets an hour.

0:28:38.063,0:28:41.411
How do you feel [br]when you look at these pants?

0:28:44.571,0:28:46.070
I feel sad.

0:28:46.070,0:28:51.870
If I didn't work in that factory, [br]this would not have happened.

0:28:51.870,0:28:55.075
I feel very bad seeing these pants.

0:28:55.465,0:28:58.892
She says she's been working [br]in the industry for three years,

0:28:58.892,0:29:02.230
meaning she started[br]when she was just 12.

0:29:02.230,0:29:06.088
Like many women in Bangladesh,[br]she felt it was her only hope.

0:29:08.038,0:29:13.280
When I was little, I thought I would grow[br]up, go to school, study, and have a job.

0:29:13.280,0:29:17.306
If you study, you have a job, [br]a doctor, a teacher.

0:29:17.306,0:29:19.506
You can have any job.

0:29:19.506,0:29:24.324
But I couldn't do it, because[br]I'm poor, I have to work to eat.

0:29:24.324,0:29:27.700
That's why I went into garment work.

0:29:28.560,0:29:33.418
Aruti's shift was punishing, [br]12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

0:29:33.418,0:29:37.398
And when a rush order was placed, [br]overtime was demanded.

0:29:37.398,0:29:41.233
How did your bosses treat you[br]and the other workers?

0:29:43.233,0:29:48.040
If the others didn't know how to do[br]the work, they used to yell and swear.

0:29:48.040,0:29:53.060
If I can't work fast enough and meet [br]the target, they'll swear at me as well.

0:29:53.060,0:29:56.158
I would feel really bad.

0:29:59.348,0:30:03.944
She also remembers how cracks had been [br]spotted inside Rana Plaza

0:30:03.944,0:30:05.947
the day before the tragedy.

0:30:05.947,0:30:07.778
The building was evacuated.

0:30:07.778,0:30:09.879
She didn't believe the building owner,

0:30:09.879,0:30:14.330
who insisted everything was safe,[br]just hours before the collapse.

0:30:15.680,0:30:19.608
This is not a crack, it's just that [br]the plaster came off

0:30:19.608,0:30:23.578
a little bit. They made it [br]seem a big thing.

0:30:25.778,0:30:29.768
The next day, April 24th, [br]her boss phoned her home

0:30:29.768,0:30:33.880
and ordered her to get back to work, [br]or she'd be fired.

0:30:34.560,0:30:37.767
On that day that they told you[br]to go back to work,

0:30:37.767,0:30:40.930
were you afraid? Were you worried that [br]that building was dangerous?

0:30:44.000,0:30:46.616
There were many of us [br]who didn't want to go.

0:30:46.616,0:30:49.273
But they forced us. They said,

0:30:49.273,0:30:55.033
"Don't worry, nothing will happen.[br]And if you die we'll die, too."

0:30:55.033,0:30:57.291
But they didn't go inside.

0:30:57.291,0:31:00.213
They made us to start work and then left.

0:31:00.213,0:31:01.852
I was scared.

0:31:01.852,0:31:04.018
But there was nothing I could do.

0:31:04.018,0:31:09.109
If I stopped working, the line would stop,[br]and I would be in trouble.

0:31:12.179,0:31:14.525
She and her fellow workers returned.

0:31:14.525,0:31:18.947
An hour later, the building collapsed.

0:31:18.947,0:31:22.806
Aruti was on the 6th floor.

0:31:23.326,0:31:27.260
What do you remember about the moment [br]the building collapsed?

0:31:28.500,0:31:31.917
When it collapsed, I thought, [br]I wouldn't survive.

0:31:31.917,0:31:36.415
Two dead bodied fell on my leg[br]and my leg was stuck there.

0:31:36.415,0:31:39.791
The roof fell on top of the bodies.

0:31:39.791,0:31:44.598
I didn't know then that I would[br]actually come out alive.

0:31:46.578,0:31:49.518
Her family received some compensation [br]from the government

0:31:49.518,0:31:52.610
for the death of her mother [br]and the loss of her leg.

0:31:52.610,0:31:55.430
When asked what she received from Loblaw,

0:31:55.430,0:31:58.180
she told us she is still hoping.

0:32:00.341,0:32:01.701
When we come back,

0:32:01.701,0:32:06.956
we expose an even uglier side of the [br]fashion industry in Bangladesh.

0:32:08.436,0:32:11.188
You've been hit. You've been hit.

0:32:22.606,0:32:24.650
After the collapse of Rana Plaza,

0:32:24.650,0:32:29.591
the Bangladeshi government scrambled [br]to assure nervous retailers and consumers

0:32:29.591,0:32:33.239
that the country was a safe [br]place to do business.

0:32:34.709,0:32:35.849
But even Loblaw,

0:32:35.849,0:32:39.571
who had been making Joe Fresh [br]clothes in this country for 7 years,

0:32:39.571,0:32:42.205
wondered how garment workers [br]could be exposed

0:32:42.205,0:32:45.537
to what it called unacceptable risk.

0:32:46.577,0:32:50.443
So we took a closer look...[br]and discovered within 3 hours,

0:32:50.443,0:32:55.333
how easy it was to find the ugly[br]side of fast fashion.

0:32:57.253,0:33:02.382
A factory dumping technicolored[br]waste water directly into a river.

0:33:06.062,0:33:08.947
A river that now runs black.

0:33:11.617,0:33:16.239
Then we saw a jute factory with[br]an open door that caught our eye.

0:33:17.359,0:33:20.414
Inside, the air was tick with dust;

0:33:21.674,0:33:24.304
dust from a toxic dye.

0:33:24.574,0:33:27.644
Yet no one here wore a mask.

0:33:31.344,0:33:35.669
Within minutes, we were kicked out [br]by the owner and his thugs.

0:33:38.099,0:33:42.121
Finally, we went into one last factory [br]with a hidden camera.

0:33:42.661,0:33:45.824
I'll show you a very good factory. [br]Everything in one place.

0:33:46.484,0:33:49.925
And found these children operating looms.

0:33:49.925,0:33:55.138
One manager admitted some factory owners [br]hire kids under the age of 10 for menial jobs,

0:33:55.138,0:33:57.978
and paid them about a dollar a day.

0:33:59.478,0:34:03.806
The garment industry has made some [br]people in this country fabulously rich,

0:34:04.486,0:34:07.911
but poverty is still [br]everywhere you look.

0:34:09.061,0:34:13.547
Some of the poorest are these squatters[br]who live next to the railway tracks,

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in the shadow of wealth.

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This gleaming tower is home to the BGMEA.

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That's the business group [br]that represents the titans

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of the garment industry in Bangladesh.

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We arrived to find a thousand [br]angry workers protesting outside.

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They say they haven't been paid[br]by their employer in a month.

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They work for a factory that, [br]until last fall,

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made clothes for Canadians.

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So what happened?

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Shoom, shoom, shoom.

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You've been hit. You've been hit.

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He'd been hit.

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He'd been hit. He'd been hit.

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Who did this to you?

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Bamboo.

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Yes, yes, bamboo.

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Who did this?

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The owners hired gangsters?

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Yes, yes, gangster.

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And what were you doing?

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You were just protesting?

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Yes.

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You were protesting because you [br]wanted your back-wages.

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Yes.

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And you make clothes for Canada?

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Yes.

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We had some questions for the [br]powerful head of the garment industry,

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the top man Canadian retailers deal with.

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Atiqul Islam is a prominent [br]factory owner in his own right.

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He's made clothes for Walmart[br]Canada, Loblaw and HBC.

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I asked him about the protest [br]outside his window.

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This is completely open industry.

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If you don't like there you can[br]go the other work there.

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We have a 25% worker shortage in[br]the industry, still today.

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In other words, if workers are abused,

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his advice? Quit and work somewhere else.

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When I ask him about the [br]bad factories we saw,

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the child labor, the pollution, [br]the dangerous working conditions,

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he wasn't alarmed.

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A lot of factories that are [br]state of the art.

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We've seen the nice ones.[br]We've seen the state of the art.

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We've seen the example of where[br]the industry is moving.

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But you're at a point right now

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where there are some [br]shining examples but...

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So for that,

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sometimes the shiny is covered [br]by the cloud of this kind of thing.

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So we need to clean the cloud.

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But what about illegal subcontracting,

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when one factory gives order [br]to another without approval?

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If the factories are overbooked, they [br]must say no, I'm overbooked.

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And as well as from the outside, [br]the retailers side also.

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But you're a businessman.

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Are they really going to say I'm [br]overbooked and I can't take the business?

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Yah, yah, yah.

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Everybody wants the business.

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No, no, no.[br]It's not like that.

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Things are completely changed.[br]It is not like that.

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We had spoken with some sources [br]who work for Walmart Canada.

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They placed an order with your group,

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and they said that that order [br]was then ended up being

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made at factory that was not approved.

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Hasan Tanvir.

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Hasan?

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Hasan Tanvir.

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Remember that Walmart shirt --

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Well, we had questions about [br]who exactly made it.

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We showed it to workers and[br]they said "yah", they made it.

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It is very difficult for me to know [br]whether I'm making this, number one.

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And number two, there's no way that[br]we're giving the goods to the outside.

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It's absolutely no way.[br]Our all garments is made in our factory.

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But Walmart told us Mr. Islam did indeed [br]have the contract to make Sujeet's shirt.

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But at his own factory, [br]not not Hasan Tanvir.

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Thank you. Thank you, I'll take that.

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You don't need that.

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Can I just see this one thing.[br]Just have a seat and I, uh....

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Absolutely.

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And then something extraordinary[br]happened after our interview wrapped up...

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Look in the background,

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as Mr. Islam conceals the garment[br]behind his desk with a pen in hand.

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After we left we noticed the tag[br]on the shirt had been defaced.

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The barcode and the Canadian[br]import number that could connect

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their shirt to Atiqul Islam's[br]company were blacked out.

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We asked him the next day if he[br]did it. He denied it.

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As for Loblaw and Joe Fresh --[br]the Canadian company insists

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it will help lead lead the way [br]to clean up the industry in Bangladesh.

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Our industry can be a force for good.

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Properly inspected, well built[br]factories play (an) important role

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in the development of[br]countries such as Bangladesh.

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Did Loblaw properly inspect before [br]Rana Plaza before the collapse?

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They say they did visit the factory.

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So why were they still [br]making clothes there?

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That's what we wanted to ask Joe Mimran,

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but we were told he wasn't [br]available for an interview.

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I am troubled by the deafening silence

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from other apparel retailers [br]on this issue.

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And while Loblaw CEO Galen Weston

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publicly criticizes other companies [br]for their deafening silence,

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he declined to be interviewed [br]for this story.

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Loblaw did send us an email [br]

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outlining their efforts to [br]help workers in Bangladesh.

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They say since the collapse

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they've contributed a million[br]dollars to two charities,

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and joined a compliance accord [br]with other retailers

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aimed at improving working [br]conditions in Bangladesh,

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and the company will now [br]put "boots on the ground"

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somewhere "in the region" [br]to inspect factories.

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But there's another way.

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Canadian factory owner Barry[br]Laxer wanted a safe factory,

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so he built one.

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It's run by a Canadian team.

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And he visits it regularly.

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But what are the effects then [br]of paying the cheapest possible price

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in a country like Bangladesh?

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Sooner or later there'll be[br]another Rana Plaza.

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It's just a matter of time.

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Sooner or later there'll be[br]another fire somewhere

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that will claim more lives.

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Because Bangladesh is just the[br]floor and the testing ground

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for how cheap products can be sold.

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Before former Walmart designer [br]Sujeet Sennik left Bangladesh,

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we had one more stop to make.

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There's one last thing I wanted[br]to show you before you go.

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This is where Rana Plaza once stood.

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Oh my god.

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There's nothing left.

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There are people walking around.

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And in Canada wearing clothes that[br]were made by these people who died here.

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This is kind of a monument to greed.

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This is a product of [br]the race to the bottom.

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So what are consumers to do?

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Boycott clothes made in Bangladesh?

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The jobs are pulling millions of[br]women out of poverty.

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Like Aruti who, despite her loss, knows [br]has to go back to work.

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Especially now that her mother is gone

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and she'll have to support her [br]younger sisters and her grandmother.

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Do you want to go back and work[br]inside a garment factory now?

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If I wanted to work in the factory,

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it's not possible to walk back and forth[br]and go up and down the stairs.

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I can't do it yet.[br]That's the issue now.

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I will be able to go back,

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but I'm afraid.

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Well, after watching tonight's episode,

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you may be wondering more [br]about the clothe you buy

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and how they were made.

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Well for some of the brands [br]and lines of clothing

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that we mentioned on tonight's program,

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you can find out more information [br]by going to our website.

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That's at cbc.ca/fifth.

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Of course we'll continue [br]to update that website

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with the developments on this story [br]in the weeks and months ahead.

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Stay with us. [br]We'll be right back after this.