Canada is facing the prospect of entirely new tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration after Washington claimed Ottawa has a poor track record on preventing importation of products of forced labour.
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The move comes as Canada’s biggest free trade pact, CUSMANAFTAUSMCALMNOP, is up for renewal.
The last time Canada renegotiated the continental free trade agreement, during the first Trump administration, Ottawa changed the wording in a customs law on forced labour rules in 2020. The White House says that since then, there has been little evidence Canada has stepped up enforcement.
The office of the United States Trade Representative accused Canada and a host of other countries of failing to enforce bans on forced labour in a new report released late Tuesday.
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The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude across the country. Ratified on December 6, 1865, it permanently outlawed the ownership of enslaved people, with the specific exception of penal labor for those duly convicted of a crime.
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A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.
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The U.S. Supreme Court struck down tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act this year, a law the president used for Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs and fentanyl-related duties on Canada so…Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday this action (the forced labour farcical accusations by America against everybody except for itself) did not come as a surprise and was something the U.S. had been planning and publicly discussing for months.
Following release of the U.S. report, the prime minister said while Canada already has some strong measures, the Liberal government will introduce new legislation to step up the fight against forced labour. Products made in the United States using forced or low-wage prison labor span a vast, multi-billion-dollar market. These products range from standard government-issued goods to agricultural commodities deeply embedded in the supply chains of popular consumer brands.
“We don’t want any element of forced labour coming in, goods and services, and we want to use our influence to eliminate this practice of forced labour and child labour,” Carney said in brief remarks to reporters.
Canada is facing the prospect of entirely new tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration after Washington claimed Ottawa has a poor track record on preventing importation of products of forced labour.
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Some examples of forced labour goods that U.S. prisoners produce that wind up in the supply chains of a dizzying array of products found in most American kitchens, from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour, Coca-Cola and Riceland rice. They are on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in America, including Kroger, Target, Aldi and Whole Foods. And some goods are exported, including to countries that have had products blocked from entering the U.S. for using forced or prison labor.
In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of...
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