From the Most Corrupt Chinese Government Ever Re-Elected

We know who Justin works for:

China’s growing control over strategic minerals could be a threat to Canada’s national security, a former head of CSIS says, and Ottawa should recognize this when it reviews a proposed takeover of an Arctic gold mine by a Chinese state-owned conglomerate.

Shandong Gold Mining Co. Ltd., one of the world’s largest gold producers, is paying $207.4-million to buy TMAC Resources Inc., the latest struggling Canadian junior miner to be swept up by a larger and better-capitalized company.

The deal will be among the first pored over by Ottawa after it announced in April that it would bring “enhanced scrutiny” to bear on acquisitions by foreign state-owned investors in a period where the COVID-19 pandemic has driven down the value of companies. China is the largest producer and consumer of gold in the world.

Richard Fadden, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service director from 2009 to 2013, said Ottawa should examine the proposed TMAC takeover within the larger picture of Canada’s national interests and Beijing’s strategy of gaining control over critical metals and minerals.

Chinese companies have not only been active buying up gold mines around the world but Shandong Gold Group, the state-owned parent company, signed up in 2015 to back a national Beijing effort to stockpile the precious metal, which is considered one of the best hedges against economic volatility.

China is also active in the Canadian North in zinc, a key ingredient in making galvanized steel, computers, cellphones and batteries.

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A federal hunt for pandemic masks is so haphazard the Department of Public Works prepaid millions to Chinese suppliers of shoddy goods while dismissing offers from Western contractors, MPs were told. The department refused to name its contractors in China: “I think Canadians need to know.”

(Sidebar: they certainly do.)

 

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Gould was asked by reporter Vassy Kapelos if the WHO should be more skeptical of the information shared by China. This was her response:

“I’m not sure that that’s the place for the WHO, because the WHO is a product of its member states, and I think that each member state can push for openness and for transparency,” she said. “One of the things that we’re doing with the World Health Assembly this week is continuing to raise that issue … in terms of what we expect other member states to do in terms of providing information and data.”

Ironically, Gould’s comments contradict remarks made by Dr. David Naylor of the Canadian Coronavirus immunity task force.

“I think they were a little too deferential. They knew from SARS-1 that there had been problems with incomplete reporting,” said Dr. Naylor of the WHO’s attitude towards China.

This China:

Some 108 million people in China’s northeast region are being plunged back under lockdown conditions as a new and growing cluster of infections causes a backslide in the nation’s return to normal.

Wow.

China totally has a handle on this.

It's a good thing that they are developing washer fluid a vaccine for us.