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The proposed legislation targets two sets of duties: a 50% tariff on various Canadian products and separate duties linked to allegations of forced labour in supply chains. Canada has announced plans to respond with its own retaliatory tariffs next week."},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreement on tariff justification"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Trump administration stated the separate duties were imposed because countries were not doing enough to combat forced labour in supply chains. The Canadian government has indicated that new legislation addressing forced labour should have exempted Canada from these 10% tariffs. These duties do not apply to goods compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade. A coalition of U.S. states is challenging the use of Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 for the forced-labour duties."},{"type":"heading","text":"Omissions"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"None of the right-rated digests mention the Reuters/Ipsos poll findings on American support for the tariffs or the renaming of Lake Ontario. None of the digests mention the specific figure of 50% for the tariff on Canadian goods, although CTV News and La Presse do. 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