Canada Finally Resolves Its China Blunder Thanks To Uncle Joe,
After losing face and billions in lost trade, unnecessarily
Trudeau’s Jimmy Carter Moment: Gee, I didn’t know the Chinese could do that
If you meet a bear while crossing a bridge, call him Uncle. Ottoman Proverb
Huawei Executive Meng Wanzhou Released From House Arrest In Vancouver After U.S. Withdraws Extradition Request. Canadian Detainees Kovrig and Spavor Freed Simultaneously By China After 3 Years In Captivity (BBC)
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September 25, 2021
Trudeau Government Goes Woke
Prime Minister Uses The Same Political Slogan As President Joe Biden and the U.S. Democratic Party: “Build Back Better”
Several Legislation Projects Promise To Violate Our Charter Rights and Freedoms:
Broadcast & Internet Legislation
Hate Speech Legislation
Vaccination Passports
Prime Minister Trudeau Says Canada Should Adopt Vaccination Passports
The new broadcast and Internet legislation is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Disguised as a plan to tax foreign technology firms, this complex legislation will strip away the freedoms we are used to in using the Internet. It avoided the Senate floor minutes before the upper house was adjourned for the summer. Many observers including editors of the National Post agree that the hate speech legislation purported to protect minorities from verbal abuse will, in fact, mean the end of free speech in Canada since it will make it easier to pursue criminal penalties for the printed word. Vaccination passports, which the Prime Minister said he intends to bring to Canada, may create two classes of people one of which has little or no mobility rights, along the lines pursued by German Nazis in the 1940’s.
July 4, 2021
China: Canada’s Biggest Foreign Policy Blunder
Winston Churchill Would Have Said:
Never Has A Country Sacrificed So Much For So Little Such A Stupid Act
We Are Honoured To Notice That Prime Minister Trudeau Has Been Using Our Words To Describe The China Issue. Is He Our First Reader Or What ?
First, let’s put things in proper perspective. China is an authoritarian state ruled by the Communist Party. They don’t play with our rules. To make things more complicated, they have a complex culture as compared to ours, and cultural norms that guide their conduct in personal and state affairs. If you want to keep them as friends, clients, or trading partners, you have to understand how things work in that country. Friendship, loyalty and respect are important values to the Chinese. Most of all, you must understand the concept of losing and saving face. If you cause a friend to lose face you have to make amends to regain the lost friendship. Western reasoning, logic and all that gibberish won’t work with them.
As an emerging economic and political superpower they are a proud nation ruled by proud leaders. Entrapment and incarceration of an important public figure is not something they can tolerate, least of all when this public figure has not committed any criminal or immoral act against Canada, Canadians, or Canadian interests. Talking about Canadian interests, where the heck is a definition of our national interests?
The surprise arrest and incarceration of Meng Wanzhou, executive of perhaps China’s most important corporation, was an act of betrayal from the Chinese perspective. As far as they are concerned, Canada has blatantly betrayed their friendship and generous patronage for nothing. Here was a country that bought almost everything Canada had to offer and asked for more.
The Prime Minister’s comments that Canada is run by the rule of law, implying that China isn’t, insulted the Chinese and aggravated the crisis. As much as we dislike authoritarian regimes, as if we are soo frigging democratic, China has its own laws and ways of dealing with people and crises. Helloo, did you forget that it’s ruled by the Communist Party when you knocked on their door begging for millions of dollars of business?
Our national television paraded one diplomatic robotic mouthpiece after another claiming that we had the right to entrap and jail a Chinese VIP while they had no right to touch one of our citizens. Really? Now we hope that the people who are in charge of conducting our foreign policy know a little more about the world we live in and the various cultures and cultural norms out there.
It was also pathetic to see our leaders appealing for help to other world leaders, even President Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo. Donald Trump? Really? Remember what he had said about our Prime Minister and other political leaders leaders during NAFTA negotiations. “He is weak and dishonest.”I can see the President having a big laugh with Melania on Air Force One. “Darling, didn’t I tell you about those Canadian dopes?”
Chinese President Xi Jinping was understandably not willing to talk to the Prime Minister, although the media was fed the BS that the two leaders had discussed the matter at the G7 meeting. It was evident in the pictures on TV that the Chinese President was totally pissed off with Canada, and he did not want to talk. A simple public apology and regret would have gone a long way to soothe relations between China and Canada and perhaps led to a solution that would satisfy all parties. Instead, the government’s intransigent insistence that Canada was totally right and China is totally wrong has led to an intractable crisis where 3 people are the unwitting victims.
As far as the incident was concerned, this was a totally stupid operation where nobody seemed to take any responsibility. A prominent Chinese executive who was also a Canadian citizen, was changing planes at Vancouver Airport when she was accosted by border guards who did not know what to do, so they spent 3 hours interrogating and searching her in detention. She had no idea that an arrest warrant had been issued, and neither did the border guards. Sucn an operation should have been vetted and approved by the highest echelon of government. Was this done, or merely left to the bureaucracy? Nobody knows, since the government has not come clean over this affair. Somebody in Ottawa had screwed up royally, and exactly what happened and how and by whom have been under wraps since.
China was a friendly country for Canada and Canadians and a very important trading partner. At the very least Canada had a moral obligation to forewarn the Huawei executive so this incident would not have taken place. The government should know better that Canada had no business, and no national interest, to get involved in a political dispute between China and the United States. As the former Prime Minister Jean Chretien wisely suggested, Canada should release the Huawei executive with apologies so Chretien can talk to the Chinese. This was also rejected.
September 8, 2019
China warns Canada of consequences if it does not release Huawei CFO
Bloomberg
China has threatened Canada with grave consequences if a top executive at Huawei Technologies Co. is not immediately released, calling her arrest as she changed planes in Canada “unreasonable, unconscionable and vile in nature.”
In its first move since Meng Wangzhou was arrested Dec. 1, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng summoned Canadian ambassador to China, John McCallum, to urge the immediate release of Huawei’ ..
Canadian Farmers Shafted In U.S.- China Trade Deal
President Trump announced the other day that China had agreed to buy 50 Billion dollars worth of agricultural products from the United States in what he called the first phase of the U.S.-China trade agreement. He said this represents almost the total capacity of U.S. exports. Full of compliments for the Chinese, he said this is a good deal not only for both countries, but for the whole world. The deal was announced in the White House oval office in the presence of Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, U.S. Negotiator Lighthizer and the Chinese Vice-Premier. For the most part the deal covers agricultural products that China stopped buying from Canada after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver over a U.S. extradition request. China has reiterated time and again that relations with Canada will not be normalized before Ms. Meng is released.
Did Canada fall for a U.S. trick to gain the upper hand in China trade? Maybe…
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October 13, 2019
Prime Minister Trudeau Is Not Racist
Neither Is Maxime Bernier For Questioning Immigration Policy
Canadian Politics Has Become A Juvenile Game Played With Gratuitously Used Labels And Cliches
Canada Chronicle believes there is nothing racist about a youthful prank Justin Trudeau played at a fun and games event two decades ago. Prime Minister has just fallen into a ditch he dug for his rivals and those who disagree with his “enlightened” ideas about ethnic and racial diversity. Neither is Maxime Bernier a racist for calling attention to the reckless immigration policies that makes life harder for old and new Canadians. It was irresponsible for removing his billboard calling for a stop to mass immigration after an idiot complained it was a racist message. There is nothing racist about calling for a responsible policy of immigration based on the country’s ability to absorb and take care of newcomers. Racism is one of those loaded catch words designed to eliminate opposition to those who profit from unbridled immigration, such as the greedy developers of Vancouver building cages in the sky for immigrants.
The Real Racism That Worries Immigrants Is Perpetrated By Educational & Professional Institutions
Canada Chronicle suggests that the actual racism is exhibited by Canada’s educational institutions that have institutionalized disdain for foreign-educated people. It’s the people who run Canada’s universities and professional associations who block immigrants from practicing their occupations because foreign education is deemed inferior. This is the kind of racism and discrimination that immigrants worry about, not an old youthful prank.
Instead of apologizing for a harmless joke he played 18 years ago the Prime Minister should do something about institutionalized discrimination that prevents immigrants from working in their professions. Has the PM checked on how many professional and highly educated immigrants work at menial positions ?