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If you express admiration for the truckers, send them money, you could be barred from national life. But if you express admiration for Xi Jinping, provide "strategic advice" to Huawei, you could become Prime Minister
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If you burn a church or swing an axe at a pipeline worker, you can rest easy. But if you protest government overreach, expect surveillance by the Special Forces
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Trudeau's hypocrisy regarding foreign funding "An inquiry into the scale of foreign funds aimed at damaging Alberta’s oil and gas industry . . . found foreign donors had provided nearly $1.3 billion for environmental campaigns between 2003 and 2019"
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Last summer many remote churches burned in darkness, so the story was easy to ignore. This winter brings a vast public protest, impossible to ignore. But we're seeing that you can cover an event, while ignoring, even distorting its meaning and significance
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In today's Canada whether a protest is violent or non-violent isn't the main issue. It's who's doing the protesting and whether elite opinion judges their cause to be "understandable"
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When I do visit the CBC news site, it's mainly to check on how bad it's getting. It's not just that they rarely look at both sides of a story. They no longer hide their contempt for those they judge to be on the wrong side of it
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Our current crisis is fueled by the PM's tendency to ridicule, even demonize those who dare to think differently. His early defence of Julie Payette's bizarre attack on religious believers was no aberration. It has encouraged similar intolerance across "progressive" opinion
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In recent years we've had (and largely ignored) violent protests in cities, along railway lines, pipelines, logging roads. Dozens of churches have burned. That something is deeply wrong should have been evident to media long before this campaign began
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It's shocking to see how the country is being steadily diminished. Deeply divided. Stripped of its history and symbols. Hostile to belief and believers. Intolerant of dissent. Defined only by its multiplying grievances. Adrift in the world
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Politicians and journalists pay a price in credibility for persisting in saying things that are clearly untrue or that contradict their own recent words and actions. The last few weeks have so drained those reserves that change is inevitable. New voices will emerge
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Canadians told to have two drinks a week, as crack is decriminalised (Coverage of PMJT's Canada is beginning to change. People are noticing our slide into global irrelevance, policy dysfunction, economic decline and creepy, anti-human social policies)
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In case in the future we wonder how we let this happen . . .
These remarks by the Finance Minister are troubling & beyond reckless. This lack of judgement and unlawful overreach by the Trudeau liberals threatens to undermine confidence in our banks, weaken investment & further damage our economy.
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The unavoidable implication of the Johnston report: Canada is broken "A government that can permit years of foreign interference in its democracy because it cannot figure out its email log-in is hardly one to trust to re-engineer the economy or much else"
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CBC bias on full display in coverage of Freedom Convoy, Coastal GasLink protests ". . . until late Friday morning, the main CBC news site completely ignored the story"
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Personal note: I served under M. Bernier when he was Foreign Minister, travelled with him to Afghanistan. Two things stood out: his obvious integrity, and his (all too rare) decency to others. A rare bird in public life
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In a period of serious/deepening global crisis we have a fundamentally non-serious/shallow leader, an opposition incapable of holding him to account, and an obsessive/rigidly enforced elite consensus around dismantling traditions and demonizing Canadian 'deplorables'
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It's evident that I've been getting something wrong for a long, long time. I've been blaming our deepening China crisis on "naivete". But what's being uncovered now shows evidence of self-interest and intent on the part of Canadians in positions of trust. How high does it go?
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Healthcare crumbling. Airports still a mess. Passports take forever. Ditto foreign-student visas. "No business case" for LNG exports sez PM. Justice Min calls courts "colonial". Anti-racism taught by racist. 2021 was the summer of discontent. 2022, the summer of disarray
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China is emboldened because it believes that the West, Canada included, isn't just in retreat--it's collapsing on itself. This isn't abstract Marxist theory. It comes from reading our papers, listening to our artists, athletes, academics, politicians. Especially our politicians
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The Prime Minister's single greatest skill is in convincing Canadians that his failures are really blessings in disguise or, more often, that they're actually "our" failures
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Let's ask China's ambassador to Canada whether Mr. Kovrig and Mr. Spavor are free to file a similar suit against their Chinese captors
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First get them home, then think very, very carefully about what’s happened, and where this leaves us. It’s late, but not too late to learn some lessons about making our way in a world that is completely unlike the one we’ve been pretending to engage
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The US, UK and Australia have just given us 1) a monumental snub, 2) feedback on our virtue-signalling foreign policy, and 3) an election issue
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Bravo Ireland!
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RCMP Commissioner accused of interfering to help Liberal government’s gun-control agenda (Our once exemplary system has been bent, politicized, corrupted. This govt's only consistent success)
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Canadians should protest any plans by local governments to raise China's flag this week. Don't forget our detainees or ignore the plight of Uyghurs, Tibetans, Chinese Christians and our friends in Hong Kong. City Hall is no place to honor China's Communist Party!
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A serious PM would think carefully about what's new, different and deeply disturbing in the protests we're seeing across the country. He wouldn't play politics or hide behind dishonest generalizations but speak with the moral clarity Canadians expect and deserve.
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PMJT once made the dubious claim that "Canada has no core identity." But he's certainly succeeded in changing what people think we stand for. It's nothing to be proud of. Particularly our ghastly euthanasia policy, increasingly seen by others as an example of what not to do
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The Scholz-Trudeau encounter illustrates how fundamentally unserious the PM is about our prosperity and our autonomy, how heedless he is of signals that are flashing all around us
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1/4 What seems indisputable in the Han Dong affair is that, in the midst of the Meng/2 Michaels crisis, a govt MP discussed the case with a senior PRC diplomat without ever informing the foreign minister. Or anyone. And that he felt this was okay and somehow his responsibility
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The PM's India visit: a small reminder . . .
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The global elite welcome Xi Jinping at virtual Davos. A billionaire NBA owner tells us that "nobody cares about the Uyghurs." The super-rich aren't threatened by China, they make money from it. They aren't our friends
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Learned two things today. 1) The government is now warning travelers that China is increasingly detaining people without due process. 2) A senator appointed by the PM wants us to show more respect for China's justice system.
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No denying Canada's international reputation has declined. Our fussy progressivism, showy incompetence and growing irrelevance are widely mocked. But our out of control euthanasia regime is no joke, prompting many to wonder what's happened to us, what we've become.
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That China attempted to block Taiwan's access to Covid vaccine is no surprise. What should surprise us is that our govt risked the health of Canadians by proposing a vaccine partnership with Beijing, showing the mix of naivete and negligence that marks its China policy
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Contrary to what PMO would have us believe, Beijing's preference for the Liberal Party is rock-solid and unchanging. This is based on the CCP's assessment that Liberal leadership remains astoundingly naive, remarkably uninformed, and reliably unprincipled.
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As the 5 Eyes shrinks to an essential 3, Canada, now on the outside, may be tempted to pass this off as a mark of distinction with China. Beijing will read it, correctly, as a sign of weakness
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Mr. Trudeau, we’re still waiting for the names of those who collude against us "...the government should name names in Parliament, let those facing allegations defend themselves there and elsewhere, and finally demonstrate the backbone to defend Canada..."
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It's obvious now that the PM is terrible at selecting people for important jobs. But at what point do we acknowledge that the same is true of Canadian voters?
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For some time, political elites have been signaling that certain acts of criminal violence are "understandable" as long as they align with elite sensibilities. They assume that such violence can be managed, like a controlled burn of old timber. They're dangerously wrong
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Our long, dispiriting Huawei saga illustrates how lost the government is on foreign policy, and reminds us that even domestic policy is hobbled by fear of China. Changing times require competence, intelligence, courage. All on short supply in Ottawa
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A minister refers to the Taliban as brothers. A crown agency bestows a contract on an arm of the hostile Chinese state. Just another day for a govt whose asleep-at-the wheel foreign policy has cost us dearly
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As we learn more about Laith Marouf and his toxic views, we should be concerned about 2 things: that some in Heritage sympathized, and that others, sensing this, were afraid to speak out
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We are sleepwalking into the Beijing Olympics, refusing to focus on the fact that China is in the midst of a vast, carefully coordinated, technologically sophisticated genocide. The flags we've lowered at home will soon be flying in a state committing crimes against humanity
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The PM cynically champions ideologies that divide, polarize. Criminality now depends on the actor rather than the act. The country is confused, discouraged, angry, increasingly broken. There's an election issue
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Under the Trudeau doctrine, if CSIS tells a political party that a candidate is seriously compromised, the party should assert its authority, show CSIS the door, and carry on. Also, worrying about this makes you racist
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My recollection of working on high-level incoming visits is that is that the PMO (whether Liberal or Conservative) insisted on being kept aware of the program on a minute by minute basis. No matter who was nominally hosting an event. No surprises for the PM.
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What's amazing, yet again, is that nobody who's paid to think about these things pointed out how absolutely insane this is
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We've paid a price for having a PM who doesn't think clearly about the role China is playing in an increasingly chaotic world order. The stakes are rising quickly. Displaying awareness of how/why this matters to Canada should be a prerequisite for leadership.
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We're getting into very strange territory. It is judged acceptable, indeed admirable, for the PM to quickly level serious charges at the US that are at the very least debatable, and for him to remain silent for a year about major human rights violations by China that aren't
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If you want to set a country adrift unhitch it from history and traditions, undermine independent institutions, enforce laws selectively, promote division, ignore threats, encourage dependency, celebrate weakness
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A national disgrace. Canada's Feminist Foreign Policy has no room for one of the most courageous, principled and seriously threatened women on the planet.
#Taiwan
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That this was not judged a liability for someone who was made Foreign Minister when Canada and Canadians were experiencing intense hostility from China tells you everything you need to know about this government
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1/2 It's not complicated. People in Canada who speak or act for a foreign government should do so transparently or face charges. Former ministers, senior public servants who trade on their govt knowledge/expertise/contacts in ANY way should meet even higher transparency standards
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Canada needs an entirely new foreign policy, one that prioritizes national security in the face of rising PRC aggression. But instead we’re scattering loose change from our self-flattering feminist foreign policy and assuming folks in Asia will be impressed
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As Britain's Parliament wakes up to the real and present threat of CCP interference, Canada's Parliament shutters the one committee willing to say/do anything about it
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The RCMP Commissioner seems alarmingly underinformed about CCP interference. She's by no means the only sleep-walker in Ottawa, but the Force exists to "keep Canadians safe," something it is failing to do for Canadians targeted by Beijing
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"It is comical that Alghabra blamed at least some of the airport delays on out-of-practice travellers. What we appear to have here is a case of an out-of-practice government that no longer listens to its citizens, or perhaps just doesn’t care any more"
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It looks an awful lot like China bet big that Canada's Liberal govt is either completely incompetent or, worse, cynically willing to look the other way on interference--even harassment of family members. And that, so far, it's paid off.
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Yesterday an NDP MP appeared unwilling to acknowledge that arson against churches is wrong in itself, always wrong. Said she needed more facts (act was caught on camera), and suggested she could think of potential motives. How did we get here?
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It's complicated. The PM has assured us today that calling Quebec racist is "unacceptable". But he has yet to withdraw his assertion that Canada (which must refer to some other place) is guilty of "systemic racism"
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We’re seeing the consequences of the govt’s “vision” of Canada as a country without any real identity or enduring values—and of confusing foreign policy with placating diaspora groups. We have real interests and real allies. It’s time to be clear about that.
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Strange days. Canadians must wait for a Special Rapporteur to arrive at conclusions that have been clear to them for months, and pray he delivers them with sufficient conviction that a government that has benefited from Chinese interference is compelled to confront it.
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Canada in 2021: arson understandable, sabotage inevitable, law enforcement conditional, parliament optional, leadership negligible
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‘Appalling’: John McCallum pitches China on helping re-elect Trudeau Liberals (Months before the 2019 election, in case anyone has forgotten)
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The complete collapse of Canada's reputation for rationality, civility, competence and quality of life is a national embarrassment and a foreign policy disaster. But it's a daily tragedy for those Canadians most exposed to the consequences of "luxury beliefs"
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In less than 24 hours, the PM's proposed measures to address PRC interference have been rendered irrelevant by the growing scope of the scandal. Putting off a full and transparent accounting will only further undermine public confidence.
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The Prime Minister must speak out against the burning of Christian churches
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Let's be honest, Canada's image is taking a beating. We're seen as a cautionary tale. This matters. Image shapes influence, and influence helps a middle power shape conditions, improve options, preserve autonomy. Far from punching above our weight...we're a punch line.
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1/2 Ottawa confirms a third of Accenture employees working on CEBA are based in Brazil "Accenture’s CEBA agreement, worth $208-million to date, is one of the largest contracts ever given to a major consulting firm and it was never publicly disclosed"
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4 hallmarks of the PMJT era make us highly vulnerable to foreign interference: Politics of division. Erosion of faith in history, traditions, institutions. The selective application of laws/rules. Steep decline in institutional competence.
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The CCP's United Front bribery operations target individuals in western countries who are disloyal, greedy and monumentally stupid. So far, no shortage of candidates
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1/4 "Trudeau says his government needs to consider potential Chinese backlash and what that would mean for the safety of Canadians and the prosperity of the country" (Why is the PM saying these things? This is beyond unhelpful. It's irresponsible)
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The PM attempted (and failed) to persuade us that the PRC interference campaign was news to him, that he hadn't been covering it up for months, and that his long-overdue disclosure wasn't triggered by the actions of a CSIS whistle blower he's now pursuing like grim death
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A note on language. China doesn't have "trials" as we understand them. They do have a form of public theatre they call a trial. Nothing that happens in them in any way constrains or even matters to China's leaders, for whom "law" is whatever they have just decided it to be
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We’re seeing the consequences of turning a blind eye to attacks on security personnel, national infrastructure, churches, synagogues, monuments; of ignoring increasingly threatening rhetoric; and of refusing to speak honestly about the sources and sponsors of this deadly mayhem.
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Name those parliamentarians who collude against us "Ms. Freeland will not even commit to the expulsion of Liberal caucus members who colluded with a foreign power. That fact alone exposes the measure as a transparent attempt at damage control"
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Painful to watch, but this brutally effective interview by
@MercedesGlobal
tells you everything you need to know about Huawei as a partner for Canada
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The PM is not someone who thinks much, particularly before speaking. But even he must understand that this would be nasty and negative, destructive and divisive. Unfortunately for us, he doesn't care.
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Shuffling off incompetent ministers while stalling on an independent inquiry is a bit like tampering with the crime scene. We can't deal with PRC interference until we identify and root out the political culture that has allowed it to flourish.
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A one-time Canadian ambassador urges China to ease up on Canada as the best way of keeping the Liberals in power. This is appalling in so many ways . . .
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We'd have a reason to be proud if Xi had rebuked the PM for taking tough action against outrageous Chinese interference in our elections, rather than simply talking about it. What PMJT got was a display of contempt, not anger.
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The PM leaves a lot of nastiness in his wake. Like the anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism of his "anti-racism" consultant; the contempt for religious believers shown by his hand-picked GG; his readiness to "understand" last summer's church burning . . .
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The PM provided the European Parliament with an update of his foreign policy vision, and outlined his views on dealing with domestic dissent. They may have been perplexed: Canada's for peaceful, rules-based order abroad, muscular use of force at home.
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Our China crisis is growing/changing faster than the government's plodding attempts to contain it. We must now investigate allegations that have nothing to do with the ultimate outcome of an election and everything to do with public trust in elected officials.
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Well, we're not so worried about foreign interference any more. Now it's MPs serving foreign masters. The govt would like to manage this quietly. Just another one-off problem. Trust us. But we need to see this correctly, as revealing an increasingly serious crisis of governance
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The world is deciding that it does need more Canada...as a cautionary tale, a lesson of what happens when government becomes progressive performance art
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People have expressed surprise at the extent to which the PM has during the campaign shown contempt for communities who disagree with him. But this isn’t new, just more evident. It’s been a consistent, shameful and worrying part of his approach, and that of his closest advisers
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Back when Canadians were deployed with NATO in Europe there was less daylight between our words and our actions. Now, as our contribution reaches the vanishing point, our rhetoric soars, delighting Canadians. Others, on to us, are less impressed
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The PM gets treated very differently than those who dare question the national consensus. No tap on the wrist from the Ethics Commissioner for them. And a much harsher experience with mounted police
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1/2 The PM, DPM and foreign minister have a duty to explain how their definition of genocide includes Canada's Residential Schools program but excludes China's ongoing campaign of terror, destruction and death in Xinjiang . . .
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We've got to abandon the delusion that China is a normal state willing to engage in productive dialogue. The path to smart China policy runs through Ottawa, not Beijing. We need to reinforce our national security and autonomy. China will get the message.
@TheHubCanada
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China is unwilling to crack down on fentanyl production that's killing North Americans. Unfortunately, our self-flattering feminist foreign policy largely avoids thinking about China. Or foreign policy. Just like the people organizing the leaders' debates.
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1/3 Months before the 2019 election, former ambassador John McCallum was back in China reportedly telling officials that the Conservatives are "much less friendly to China than the Liberals." That's not a new idea, but boasting about it so publicly was an eye opener
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Many Libs, NDP view this summer's arson attacks on Catholic churches as "understandable" political statements. The implications of this are so profoundly shocking that they've yet to be processed. Normally the media would take this on, but they're part of the problem
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We've had 2 ambassadors who appeared to reflect the PM's unchanging, highly positive take on China. PMJT needs to understand, finally, that we don't need a promoter, but someone can help deliver a smart and realistic China policy that addresses the growing risk we face
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Granted, it's hard to confuse Ottawa with Tofino, but beyond that, what part of this shabby story is in the slightest bit surprising? This is a government that has elevated shameless public hypocrisy to an art form
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It would be deeply worrying if Ottawa was silent in a time of crisis. But not as worrying as it is right now, with people at the top saying meaningless and profoundly foolish things, seemingly on autopilot...
We must build on our diplomatic legacy, reinforce the international system that has brought about global stability, and reshape it to become more inclusive.
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Singh explains why it's okay to burn churches or attack pipeline workers but not to protest mandates. Rights are rewards for having the approved political views. I know it's inconvenient, but I think that's worth having an election over.
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