Monday Post

A lot going on today ...




Justin just can't understand why his favourite country is willing to ignore him and to kill a Canadian national:

A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a Canadian man to be executed for drug smuggling, prompting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to accuse China of using the death penalty arbitrarily.

The ruling, and Trudeau's reaction, could aggravate already sour relations between Beijing and Ottawa following the arrest of a senior Chinese executive in Canada and China's subsequent detention of two Canadians.

The Dalian Intermediate People's Court in China's northeast province of Liaoning re-tried Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, who had appealed his original 15-year prison sentence, and decided on execution, the court said in a statement.

Schellenberg was told in court he had the right to appeal to Liaoning High Court within 10 days upon receiving the ruling, the intermediate court said in a second statement.

"It is of extreme concern to us as a government, as it should be to all our international friends and allies, that China has chosen to begin to arbitrarily apply (the) death penalty ... as in this case," Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa.

Bilateral ties turned icy in early December after Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], was arrested in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition warrant.

Well, Prince Useless, let's break it down:

In the 1960s, a 41-year-old Pierre Trudeau visited Communist China during the great famine and co-wrote a book hailing Maoism and denying the existence of a national food policy that killed 38 million people. He never retracted his China views.

So there's that.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the top draw at a $1,500 Liberal Party cash-for-access fundraiser at the mansion of a wealthy Chinese-Canadian business executive in May. One of the guests at the event was a well-heeled donor who was seeking Ottawa's final approval to begin operating a new bank aimed at Canada's Chinese community.

The Globe and Mail has learned that wealthy Chinese businessman Zhang Bin who, with a partner, donated $1-million to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the University of Montreal Faculty of Law weeks after the fundraiser, also attended the event. Mr. Zhang is a political adviser to the Chinese government in Beijing and a senior apparatchik in the network of Chinese state promotional activities around the world.

So there's also that.

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And this: 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been unable to persuade China’s leaders to formally entrench labour, gender, environment and governance issues in the negotiating framework of the free trade talks.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau departed China on Thursday without securing the start of free trade talks with the world’s second-largest economy, but said Canadians need to lower their expectations about just how quick that will happen.

As they've done with you, Prince Useless.


Everything China has done up until this point has been to show Justin who is in charge. Whether it is poor-grade steel flooding the American market through Canada, Huawei spyware and the arrest and possible extradition of Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei executive wanted by the Americans, the Chinese have ramped up the pressure to let the weakest country in North America know what they expect from it.

No one cares about "immunity", Justin, and their abuses of human rights are certainly not "arbitrary".

Canadians ignored these cold hard facts about China just as they did about a substitute drama teacher being a capable leader of the second-biggest country in the world.




It's an election year!:

To wit:

"And to know that somewhere in the Prime Minister's Office staffers were poring through their personal files to try and see … which families would be suitable for a photo-op for the prime minister's re-election campaign. That's disgusting."

Yes, it certainly is disgusting.




Justin should just stop doing these staged events town-hall meetings.  He always runs into someone who gives a him a hardball question or calls him out for being a spineless, corrupt worm and just makes things awkward for the people who have to lie for him.

Case in point:

At one of his recent town halls, Justin Trudeau’s failed record was slammed by a Canadian who spent three minutes discussing how Trudeau has managed to anger so many people in our country.

The man ripped Trudeau’s pipeline failures, saying “you can legalize marijuana, but we can’t twin a pipeline – an existing pipeline – to the coast?”

He also opened his questioning with a dig at Trudeau’s tendency to blame others, saying “First of all I want to congratulate you – you made it 45 minutes into your speech without blaming Harper, that was pretty good.”

Oh, this won't be good:

Vancouver's Jody Wilson-Raybould is moving from Justice to Veterans Affairs, generally considered a more minor portfolio. Trudeau said veterans issues require the same deft touch Wilson-Raybould brought to the justice portfolio.

(Sidebar: this Jody Wilson-Raybould.)

Trudeau said not to think that serving veterans is anything other than a great responsibility.

Yes, Justin, about that:

“Why are we still fighting certain veterans groups in court? Because they’re asking for more than we are able to give right now.” 

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has left more than $372 million meant to help veterans and their families unspent since taking office in November 2015 ...

It's not enough to tax something that isn't a pollutant. The cash-strapped Liberals need more:

Millions of dollars owed to ordinary Canadians sits unclaimed in dormant bank accounts and terminated pension plans — and the federal Department of Finance is looking at fresh ways to tax some of that idle money and to reduce or eliminate any interest paid on it.

Quick! Get Ralphie to deny something!:

An alleged Canadian member of terror cult ISIS has been captured, according to news reports.

Global News is reporting that Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed claimed he was an Ethiopian-Canadian in a short video.

Kurdish forces said that Mohamed was captured in northern Syria by the Syrian Democratic Forces in Deir al-Zour.