does rclone 'sync' work with google drive to remove files?

I am trying to use rclone to sync a directory to my google drive. The code I am using is something like: rclone sync ~/Desktop/myfolder mygoogledrive:myfolder This works to upload the contents just fine. But when I remove a file from my local "myfolder" the corresponding file in Google Drive stays undeleted when I run the sync command. So clearly I expect the file to be deleted by rclone, but should I? Is this a supported feature for Google Drive? If so, does anyone have any thoughts on why it's not working. Am I missing a flag?