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submitted 21 hours ago by CloudwalkingOwl@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

So the Trump administration is levying tariffs against Canada for not doing enough to stop enforced labour. That's rich coming from a country that still practices slavery.

https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/just-who-is-using-slave-labour?r=4ot1q2&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

Does this include the ICE labor camps?

[-] schwim@piefed.zip 28 points 21 hours ago

If you'll just wait 7 minutes, the Grand Cheetoh will post a new truthsocial blurb with a new reason for the tariffs. It's a never ending ferriswheel of bullshit justifications pedaled to his cult followers.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 17 points 20 hours ago

Nothing he says has any truth to it, it’s not even worth thinking about.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

Also.of note, I'm fairly sure that some of those countries lower down on the list don't use prison labor.

And certainly only the US offloads prison management to corporations for corporate profits.

[-] Cypher@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

And certainly only the US offloads prison management to corporations for corporate profits.

The US isn’t the only country that has private prisons, I don’t know about the countries on that list but Australia has privatised prisons.

I don’t know much about them though.

[-] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago

Well he did say dumb has a b at the end! 🤪

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

And this is just considering their domestic slave labour population, not the conditions under which people work for American corporations in some countries. American manufacturers didn't move factories south just for lower wages. Low wages come hand in hand with bad working conditions.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 8 points 18 hours ago
[-] Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

china suspiciously missing from the list

[-] CloudwalkingOwl@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

China doesn't post any statistics about its prison population. So, yes, it's off the list.

But please note, China isn't imposing tariffs on other countries that use forced labour either--which is the point of the article.

[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Its always lies.

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