Carney says Trump’s 10% forced labour tariffs ‘not a surprise’ to him

Carney says Trump’s 10% forced labour tariffs ‘not a surprise’ to him

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he isn’t surprised by the Trump administration’s plan to slap import levies on goods allegedly made with forced labour.

A report released from U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s office on Tuesday listed dozens of countries, including Canada, as having varying degrees of ineffective enforcement rules around goods made with forced labour.

The report accused Canada and a handful of other countries of failing to “effectively enforce” import bans on such items. As a result, the U.S. government will hit goods not compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement with a 10 per cent levy.

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CHARLEBOIS: The Canada Royal Milk story Ottawa doesn’t want to explain

CHARLEBOIS: The Canada Royal Milk story Ottawa doesn’t want to explain

Canadians pay a premium for dairy products because they have been told that supply management protects Canadian farmers, strengthens domestic production, and safeguards our food sovereignty. Whether one supports the system or not, that has always been the bargain: Consumers pay more in exchange for stability, predictability, and a secure domestic food supply.

That is why newly released government records related to Canada Royal Milk in Kingston, Ont. deserve far more attention than they have received.

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US plans extra 10% tariffs for 60 countries over forced labor Canada among them

US plans extra 10% tariffs for 60 countries over forced labor Canada among them

US President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing additional tariffs of 10% or more to be imposed on its trading partners following a probe into countries importing goods allegedly made with forced labor.

In a report released Wednesday, the US Trade Representative (USTR) said it had found that 60 economies had failed to “impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor,” calling it a “burden” to US commerce.

… An additional 10% tariff will be imposed on imports from Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, Pakistan, the UK and EU nations. These are countries which, according to Washington’s investigation, impose a forced labor import prohibition, that have undertaken commitments on forced labor or have partially prevented the import of forced labor goods.

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A Chinese Intelligence Organ Finds Its Hero in Ottawa, and the Words It Uses Are Carney’s Own

A Chinese Intelligence Organ Finds Its Hero in Ottawa, and the Words It Uses Are Carney’s Own

OTTAWA — On May 6, Guangming Daily — not just an official Chinese Communist Party newspaper, but allegedly the favored mouthpiece of the world’s largest intelligence agency — published an admiring essay under a headline that reads “From dependence to autonomy: how the Carney government is reimagining Canada–U.S. relations.” The piece, which approvingly amplified Carney’s odd choice to flourish a figurine of the British general Isaac Brock, famed for repelling an American invasion in 1812, does not report on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s rupture with Washington so much as celebrate it.

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Chinese interference ‘systemic,’ report says as minister returns to Canada

Chinese interference ‘systemic,’ report says as minister returns to Canada

Canadian researchers are calling for a more coordinated response by G7 countries to counter “systemic” Chinese foreign interference, particularly as technology and tactics evolve and Beijing’s agents embed themselves further into societies.

Wednesday’s report by the Montreal Institute for Global Security comes a day before Canada is set to welcome China’s foreign minister to Ottawa for the first time in a decade.


Hmmmmm someone make Xi angry!

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Canada morphing from good neighbor to serious threat?

Canada morphing from good neighbor to serious threat?

What’s happening in Canada is no longer simply odd, sad, or irrelevant.

It is deeply concerning.

Canada has morphed into a crazed killing factory, one that performs Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) procedures on its own citizens, even those who aren’t facing a terminal illness.

Seriously depressed? Canada will off you. And why wouldn’t Canadians be depressed, as the radicals that have been running — and ruining — the country for decades now have destroyed their economy, made many things unaffordable, and made some large cities almost uninhabitable due to crime from the massive hordes that they have let in from Third World nations.

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Joe Varner: China doesn’t even have to pressure Canada to keep Liberals in line

Joe Varner: China doesn’t even have to pressure Canada to keep Liberals in line

Remarks from Conservative MP Michael Chong on his recent Taiwan visit should not have required saying.

“Canada is an independent, sovereign country. We do not take direction from foreign governments on where MPs can travel internationally,” stated Chong on May 17, a day prior to his departure.

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She Exposed Beijing’s Secret Police. Now Its AI Porn Deepfakes Smear Her — as Ottawa Signs a Pact With the Same Chinese Ministry

She Exposed Beijing’s Secret Police. Now Its AI Porn Deepfakes Smear Her — as Ottawa Signs a Pact With the Same Chinese Ministry

OTTAWA — Laura Harth helped expose Beijing’s “overseas police service centers” as a global architecture of transnational repression — clandestine outposts that Harth and Safeguard Defenders linked to China’s Ministry of Public Security, triggering investigations from Europe to North America.

Now, Harth says, the machinery she helped reveal has turned on her with an AI-generated sexualized deepfake smear campaign that her organization identifies as part of the same Chinese police-linked repression ecosystem documented by the U.S. Justice Department and other security researchers.

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CRTC looks set to kill off trade talks with U.S.

CRTC looks set to kill off trade talks with U.S.

On Thursday, Canada’s broadcast regulator appears ready to throw a grenade into the already fraught world of Canada-US trade talks. The CRTC is set to unveil new rules on Canadian content and discoverability for streaming platforms.

That would include everything from Canadian-based Crave or CBC’s Gem, but also American services from Apple Music to Netflix, Prime to Disney+.

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Western civilization is under siege in Canada, activist warns

Western civilization is under siege in Canada, activist warns

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canada is grappling with debates over national identity and security as well as international trade. Ottawa is navigating U.S. tariffs and Donald Trump’s threats of higher trade duties ahead of this July’s review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, while also managing populist and separatist movements, hate crimes, and broader pressures on national cohesion.

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The Quiet Architecture of Chinese Influence

The Quiet Architecture of Chinese Influence

In recent years, Americans have become increasingly conscious of the extent to which foreign governments cultivate influence inside the United States. Public debate has focused heavily on Qatar’s funding of elite universities and even the burgeoning influence of the South Korean lobby. China, despite being recognized as America’s primary geopolitical rival, has often been discussed in narrower terms: trade wars, Taiwan, semiconductors, military expansion, and industrial espionage. Far less attention has been paid to the depth of China’s institutional presence inside the United States and other Western democracies. China’s approach differs because the Chinese Communist Party does not view economics, agriculture, education, media, culture, and politics as separate spheres. Each is treated as part of national power.

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GUNTER: Worried as Carney’s Canada gets closer to China

GUNTER: Worried as Carney’s Canada gets closer to China

Since February, there have been two significant reports documenting the extent to which Chinese Community Party (CCP) agents have infiltrated Canadian institutions and community organizations in an effort to woo or strong-arm Chinese Canadians into helping spread Chinese government policies and goals.

The most disturbing aspect of both reports is the willingness of Canada’s Liberal government to turn a blind eye to this level of infiltration and the effects it has on Canadian elections and democratic institutions.

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GOLDSTEIN: It’s as if the foreign interference inquiry never happened

GOLDSTEIN: It’s as if the foreign interference inquiry never happened

Has the federal government learned nothing from Canada’s foreign interference inquiry?

More than five years after the previous Justin Trudeau regime first claimed to be “actively considering” a foreign lobbyists’ registry (officially the Foreign Influence Transparency Registry) in February 2021, Canada still doesn’t have one.

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NDP’s Jenny Kwan Demands Ottawa Release Secret Police Deal With Beijing, Calling Continued Secrecy a Threat to Diaspora Safety

NDP’s Jenny Kwan Demands Ottawa Release Secret Police Deal With Beijing, Calling Continued Secrecy a Threat to Diaspora Safety

OTTAWA — A senior New Democratic Party parliamentarian has formally demanded that the Carney government release the full text of its secret law enforcement agreement with China’s Ministry of Public Security, echoing a set of facts The Bureau has been reporting for months, while warning that Ottawa’s continued refusal to disclose the deal is fueling legitimate fear among diaspora communities who have experienced or fear transnational repression by the Chinese state.

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Fentanyl ingredients entering Canada via Vancouver en route to cartel-run drug labs, U.S. DEA boss says

Fentanyl ingredients entering Canada via Vancouver en route to cartel-run drug labs, U.S. DEA boss says

Chemicals used to make fentanyl are streaming into the Port of Vancouver on their way to drug labs run by Mexican cartels on Canadian soil, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration told senators in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

DEA administrator Terrance Cole said U.S. law enforcement officials are “very conscious” of fentanyl being manufactured in Canada for export across the border and there have been “significant seizures” of the drug in Canada over the past two months.

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