New forced labour tariffs proposed by the United States are “not a surprise” for Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Wednesday.
The Trump administration early on Wednesday said it was proposing an additional tariff of 10 per cent or more on products from dozens of major trading partners, including Canada.
“This is not a surprise,” Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters in Ottawa.
“It’s something that the U.S. has been planning for a few months,” he added.
The report released early Wednesday by the U.S. Trade Representative said Canada, Mexico, Taiwan and the United Kingdom, as well as some other countries, would face 10 per cent additional tariffs for allegedly failing to enforce a forced labour import ban.
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The new tariffs maintain the exception for goods that comply with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement, also known as CUSMA, Carney said.
“That puts us in a position where, again, we would still have the best trade deal of any of the U.S. trade counterparts,” he said.
Canada also supports the objective behind the new tariffs, Carney added.
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“The motivation of the U.S. action, the 301 tariffs or proposed tariffs against a variety of countries, is something that we share. Canada has a very strong legislative regime against forced labour in supply chains,” he said.
“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 added.
–with files from The Associated Press
I thought the court struck down the other tariffs because the President isn’t allowed to make tariffs alone. Why then does he bother to continually make new ones? It sounds like threats against the other countries to see if they will be intimidated and do what Washington wants.
Carney is always 6 miles behind everything, Trump announces something, oh we thought of that, the Conservative tells him a lot of good things to do, he hand picks a couple and then tries to take ownership of the idea.
The Senate just voted to curtail trump’s war plans.
Because he never ever had any besides kill some old bearded guy.
The land built on slavery does this? He’s got dementia folks.
My turn.
Such hypocritical tariff!!
With our strategic New World order partnership with China, Canada is failing to enforce a forced labour import ban.
So we need to pay up, eh?
The Government of Canada acts like a small child.
Total victims and nothing is their fault ever. Just blame Trump for everything.
i dont think anybody would be “surprised” that there are boatloads of slave labour products coming from our new best buds.
More surprised you would be, if they were making $16.40 CAD per hour.
With benefits. lol.
Canada is an authoritarian government.
The Liberal Cabinet still can’t admit the atrocities by the Chinese regime on the Uyghurs. Also, Liberal MP Michael Ma tried to downplay the evidence in parliamentary committee in regards to forced labour in China.
Then do we ban goods from China?
China has forced labor on people that have committed no crime and done nothing wrong. Yes, American and Canadian convicted felons do labor within the walls of the prison.
Yet again, Elbows Up Canadian conflate an issue to make excuse for a Government that cozies up to authoritarian regimes like Cuba and China.
Since many U.S. companies use prison labour I guess we need to start sanctioning them so the U.S. won’t put tariffs on our products?
If Carney would have cleaned house and got rid of all the Trudeau hacks he would have had more credibility. Instead he kept a whole bunch, including Dominic Leblanc who basically went along with the disastrous policies of Trudeau
So we struggle, that’s what Canadians do, stop all negotiations because TACO!!
@ Alex – No we would not be justified. That is a different conversation completely.
Yes, the prisoners should get paid more. However, they are also in prison for a reason (majority of the time). You are incarcerated for decisions you made… Chinese internment camps are not the same thing.
Carney is an economist and 2-time central banker that was, by law, required to make statements periodically.
His main job was to preserve stability. His legally required statements were crafted to be precise in its ambivalence.
Today, he fails to be consistent on any topic. He has no capacity to rock the boat.
So naturally we’d be justified in placing a forced labour counter tariff in place, given the US’s explicit constitutional sanction of forced prison labour.
For the Elbows Up Canadians sneering at the USA, slavery was abolished in 1865.
Carney wants the trade war to keep going so that his Elbows Up followers feel good about it.
Is it not surprising because Canada is supporting forced labour?
He says it’s not a surprise while also having previously said that Trump is too unpredictable.
Which is it? I think Trump is super predictable. I think Carney wants a trade war with the US.
Liberals will be their usual ‘all talk and then for at least a year …….. no action”
I wish you would resign 😕
Of course Carney knew about this, but of course has done nothing about it.
The Canadian Govt makes no effort to be proactive on anything, it is all reactive under Carney.
Carneys ex company Brookfield is heavy on forced labor. He has a conflict of interest no doubt.
Chinese EVs some components are made from forced labor. Canada allows import of them, USA doesn’t. Canada wants to suck and blow at the same time. Typical
@GR – yes we buy stuff from China… no that does not mean it was made with forced labour.
There are specific regions in China that it would be coming from that is tied to the internment camps or re-education camps.
Sounds a lot like conversion therapy with a side of hard labour. but yeah, we are okay with that in Canada from a Liberals perspective i guess.
@GR Great whataboutism by you. Canada is the one trying to import into the USA. Canada could impose the same rules if they want to.
How much stuff does the US import from forced labour countries?
Hmmmm forced labor…..oh like the American prison system, that’s why he doesn’t want anyone else’s “forced” labor they already have their own.
Trump doesn’t realize the US imports millions of dollars in the goods produced by forced labor … from China, Burma, Indonesia, Myanmar, etc. But then he doesn’t realize much at all!
Most people would be surprised the number of force labour immigrants that are working only for food and a bed in Canada with the threat of deportation if they complain.
Not long ago I read about companies in the US employing children. Children who worked the night shift, under the age of 16, who then went to school during the day! Clean up your own backyard before asking so righteous! Just another excuse to tariff. First one was all the drugs from Canada (Canada is not the worst offender and what about the illegal guns that enter Canada from the US?). Then tariffs now this.
Well isn’t that hypocritical. The US uses forced , slave labour in its prison system which has the most incarcerated people per capita in the world.
US president is full of crab everytime
deliberate policy decisions made by successive federal governments to fundamentally alter the nation’s economic and demographic trajectory. quebec should have been independent decades ago, but pierre trudeau insisted they continue to ride the gravy train, therefore it is quebec that destroyed yer country.
The phrase “Raise your elbow” got the voters all fired up. The mindless voters naively believed that Carney could handle the tariffs and take Canada off. Ha ha, what a huge joke!Carney’s elbow can be raised or lowered according to political needs. The rapid economic decline is obvious to the naked eye. However, he can shift the blame very easily. He either complains about tariffs, or about the war or the decline in the number of immigrants. He doesn’t mention his own incompetence or a bunch of incompetent cabinets at all.It is always others who are at fault.The cabinet was in a very bad state ten years ago, but that doesn’t prevent me from being replaced as a minister. If I can’t do well in the immigration department, I can be in the Justice Department. If I can’t do well in the Industry Department, I can be in the Economic Department. Although we don’t have any specialties, we are all all-round. What can the voters do to me?So, it can be said that the mentally handicapped voters are more terrifying than the incompetent prime minister.
@ kdt – Little bit of a difference from actual forced labour in China.. The camps in China are holding Uyghurs Muslims…
Prisons in america are holding Criminals…. Yes you can argue there are innocent people in prison, but its not the same as being imprisoned for being a certain religion.
And Carney wants deeper trade with China who is notorious for slave labour, including building the EVs.
Why is Canada so smug and virtuous. Do they forget their history on building the national railway, how they treated the Indigenous, and their bowing to communist dictators like Castro. Revisionist history by hard left socialists.
can someone explain in ENGLISH please!
hey trevor i like that ill use it from now on. its not about money. loss of freidum is the problem that laurentians are forcing on all of us. goooo kenny
Alberta is forced labour to the Ottawa elites.
Go Trump Go. Please take Canada.
Hilarious that the country built on slaves pretends it wasn’t.
MAGA: best prez with alzheimers ever
Trump is an amazing US President.
The government always promises BC all sorts of things but the second that they get a pipeline deal they renege on them and go back to treating us like we don’t exist, except of course, they still expect to collect their equalization payments. I don’t have any use for the rest of this parasitic country. I want BC to separate without Alberta. They just got a new pipeline two years ago and there has been absolutely no action on the lumber industry tariffs in almost ten years. I am no longer a Canadian citizen. I am a British Columbian only! 🖕
Not a surprise, but what have you done carney NOTHING except give us more taxes and recession
So Amazon can’t sell Chinese made products? MAGA is pulling straw. They lost support and just relying on their cult followers.
So then, by Carney’s own admission, he supports child labor by trading with c*mmunist countries. And he supports it here. Kids well before they are ready are looking for jobs to support themselves. The parents just cant do enough.
LeBlanc took two days to get this thrown at us and the rhetoric of 51st state begins anew.
This is the Canadian government now. A cowardly little f*scist who supports genocide and forced child labor. A group of shallow minded, musical chairs ministers, being paid huge to be as useless as possible.
Funny the USA used forced labour by using convicts to do work for certain states private prisons are notorious for it.
I applause that the USA will not let any Chinese EVs enter from Canada or Mexico. They are not allowed in the USA.