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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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The Myth of Slavery as an Engine of Growth

The Myth of Slavery as an Engine of Growth

Over the past two decades, the New History of Capitalism has transformed debates about Western development by restoring slavery to the center of the story of modern economic growth. A burgeoning literature now contends that slavery was not simply a moral atrocity intertwined with capitalism but the essential engine that powered the rise of the Atlantic economy itself. According to this interpretation, slave labor generated the capital accumulation, commodity production, and financial sophistication that made the modern West rich. When British politician Kemi Badenoch publicly opposed this argument, critics accused her of minimizing slavery’s economic significance. Yet the central empirical difficulty with the enrichment thesis remains unresolved: if slavery is such a powerful generator of prosperity, why did societies organized around slavery remain poor for most of human history, despite slavery existing across nearly every major civilization?

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Geoff Russ: Sorry, progressives, Canada wasn’t ‘built on slavery’ like the U.S.

Geoff Russ: Sorry, progressives, Canada wasn’t ‘built on slavery’ like the U.S.

Spurred on by the so-called reckonings over racism in the United States and its legacy of slavery, many Canadian activists have attempted to import America’s divisive racial politics into Canada. However, examining slavery in Canada on its own terms and in good faith does not result in an identical discourse.

A report released Wednesday by the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy — titled, “Slavery in Canada: The Facts Rarely Told” — is a fascinating and grim study into the country’s dark history of trafficking in human beings.

 

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United Nations Report: ‘Slavery’-Like Rent-A-Womb Industry Should Be Globally Banned

A new United Nations report detailing the harms the rent-a-womb industry wreaks on women and children says the answer to preventing further harm is “eradicating surrogacy in all its forms.”

Several countries such as Spain, Italy, and China already outlaw surrogacy. According to the 23-page report’s author Reem Alsalem, however, there needs to be a global effort to reduce the demand for surrogacy by criminalizing the people and institutes who promote and facilitate it.

“Surrogacy arrangements can amount to or resemble slavery, as they place surrogate mothers in a position in which any or all of the attributes of the right of ownership are exercised over them,” the report declares.

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Canada’s Anti-Slavery Legacy Is a History Worth Celebrating

Aboriginal slavers Canada

As Trump’s trade wars continue, we’ve seen more Canadian flags flying than during the Trudeau years, when flags on federal buildings flew at half-mast amid self-flagellation over “our country’s historical failures.”

But few Canadians are aware that four years ago, Parliament voted unanimously to designate Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day to commemorate Britain’s Slavery Abolition Act of 1834, which ended human bondage in the British Empire (which at the time included Upper and Lower Canada). This happened three decades before the United States ended slavery, at the cost of a devastating Civil War, and many decades before many African states such as Mauritania (1901) and Ethiopia (1942) officially—but often not effectively—declared the practice illegal.

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Geoff Russ: Sorry, progressives, Canada wasn’t ‘built on slavery’ like the U.S.

The deeply uncomfortable truth is that much of the slavery that took place in Canada was done by First Nations

Spurred on by the so-called reckonings over racism in the United States and its legacy of slavery, many Canadian activists have attempted to import America’s divisive racial politics into Canada. However, examining slavery in Canada on its own terms and in good faith does not result in an identical discourse.

A report released Wednesday by the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy — titled, “Slavery in Canada: The Facts Rarely Told” — is a fascinating and grim study into the country’s dark history of trafficking in human beings.

Here is the study in pdf format:   Slavery in Canada

h/t Patti Jo

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Slavery in Canada: The facts rarely told

Executive summary

This study summarizes the key facts on slavery in Canada, from the colonial period to slavery’s eradication in British Columbia over four centuries later.

In early Canada, indigenous slave-trading networks were robust:

Before the transatlantic slave trade, in pre-Columbian North America alone there were at least 39 distinct slave societies.
By the late 17th century, up to two-thirds of the population of some Iroquois communities consisted of “adoptees”—that is, captives.
A system of native alliances traded slaves to the colonists of New France from as far away as the Missouri River basin, Upper Mississippi, the Great Lakes, and Chesapeake Bay.
Well into the 19th century, indigenous networks traded slaves along the Pacific Coast and Columbia River, with only minimal involvement of Europeans.
Thus, it makes sense that about 64 percent of all the slaves held by Europeans in New France from the mid-17th century to 1834 (when slavery was fully abolished in the British Empire) were indigenous; 34.5 percent were African. Using the upper estimates of historians, the grand total of all slaves held in Canada across that period numbered 7,000 to 7,500. For comparison, more than thirteen hundred times that many souls—nearly 10,000,000—were enslaved from 1619-1865 in the United States.

Despite opposition from slave-owning legislators, Upper Canada passed the first legislation in the British Empire to end slavery—15 years before Britain outlawed the slave trade, 41 years before Britain abolished slavery in the West Indies, and 72 years before the States settled the issue on the battlefield. Thus, if by “Canada” we mean the country confederated in 1867, the fact is that slavery has never been legal here; all legal Canadian slavery was pre-Confederation.

Moreover, Canada welcomed over 30,000 African-Americans who escaped slavery and found freedom at the northern terminus of the Underground Railroad.

Yet, indigenous slavery was not fully stamped out in British Columbia until near the turn of the 20th century. And human trafficking remains a grave evil facing Canadian society today.

On balance, Canada’s history and record on slavery deserve to be cherished and celebrated.

Slavery in Canada

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UN judge ‘exploited and abused’ woman she forced into slavery, court rules

Lydia Mugambe slave owner, UN judge

A UN judge has been convicted of forcing a young woman to work as a slave who she “exploited and abused”.

Lydia Mugambe, 49, took “advantage of her status” over the victim in the “most egregious way” by preventing her from holding down steady employment and forcing her to work as her maid and to provide childcare without payment, prosecutors said.

Mugambe, who is also a high court judge in Uganda, was found guilty on Thursday of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law, facilitating travel with a view to exploitation, forcing someone to work, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness after a trial at Oxford crown court.

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McDonald’s and supermarkets failed to spot slavery

A gang forced 16 victims to work at either the fast-food restaurant or the factory – which supplied Asda, Co-op, M&S, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose.

Well-established signs of slavery, including paying the wages of four men into one bank account, were missed while the victims from the Czech Republic were exploited over more than four years.

McDonald’s UK said it had improved systems for spotting “potential risks”, while the British Retail Consortium said its members would learn from the case.

I never trusted Ronald.

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The Guardian’s self-laceration is embarrassing to watch

The Guardian is currently engaged in an orgy of sanctimonious breast-beating. After two years’ research commissioned by its proprietor, the Scott Trust, it has discovered that its founding editor John Edward Taylor and some of his backers had ‘extensive links’ to slavery. This has caused something like a nervous breakdown in the paper’s York Way offices. The editor, Katharine Viner, writes that the revelation made her ‘sick to my stomach’. The paper’s staff are said to be ‘tormented’ by the thought. There have been abject public apologies, promises of amendment, and all the usual apparatus of cringing self-laceration.

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America Would Be A Better Place If We Taught The Truth About Slavery

Liberal Whites wallowing in revisionist histories have made Whites the racist pariahs of the world, and Americans are ranked the worst. Americans have themselves to blame. They can’t stop talking about slavery and racism, and now neither can African Americans. If woke educators have their way, all African Americans, present and future, will be obsessed with slavery and racism because it will be the center of American history. This will destroy America’s ability to hold together as a nation.

America is the only nation where people politick to make its long-dead slave past the center of its history. As a historical matter, it makes little sense when compared to the slave sins of other nations.

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Netherlands slavery: Saying sorry leaves Dutch divided

Almost half of the Dutch do not support an apology while 38% do, a study revealed

The Netherlands is expected to apologise for slavery, with a speech on Monday by the prime minister and ministerial visits to the Caribbean and Suriname.

But the date chosen and the way the announcement has been organised has prompted criticism, so what Mark Rutte is planning to say is not yet clear.

Critics complain of insufficient consultation and claim the way it has been pushed through by the Dutch cabinet has a “colonial feel”.

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Native American Ancestors’ Own Sordid History

In his Proclamation on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, 2022, which the progressive Left is striving to make a federal holiday in lieu of Columbus Day, President Joe Biden proclaimed that “we celebrate indigenous history and our new beginning together, honoring Native Americans for shaping the contours of this country since time immemorial.”

In addition, the Biden administration has embraced the progressive Left’s oppressor versus oppressed paradigm. This means casting “indigenous peoples,” or “Native Americans,” as the completely innocent victims of exploitation by white explorers, colonists, settlers, and government officials. This has all the markings of the infamous 1619 Project, which places slavery at the center of America’s history and claims that its continuing legacy is an America that remains systemically racist.

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