I, For One, Welcome Our New Chinese Overlords

Slowly boiling the Canadian frog:

As noted in a recent PBS report, the counterfeit masks from the Chinese factory Shanghai Dasheng even include fake government approval stamps, showing a clear effort to sell crap equipment while fooling people into using them ...

Masks like these:

The Department of Public Works yesterday said it’s run out of suppliers of high-grade pandemic masks just as provinces begin to open up the economy. “We’ve got about as much as we can,” said Michael Mills, associate assistant deputy minister.

What can go wrong?




B!#ch:

In another totally expected acquiescence of the authoritarian Chinese regime's behaviour, Health Minsiter Patty Hajdu refused to criticize or even mention China when confronted on Chinese government-owned nursing homes in British Columbia.

I will wager that she will secure a lucrative job with a Chinese company once she is done fleecing Canadian taxpayers.




No, Canadian politicians made some appropriate mouth-noises but have no intention of fully supporting the free and independent nation of Taiwan:

The list of countries involved in the campaign includes Canada, whose government is often loath to anger Beijing. But here, it is joining an effort on the right side of history, with much-welcomed remarks from Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne. “Canada continues to support Taiwan’s meaningful participation in international multilateral fora where its presence provides important contributions to the public good,” he told The Canadian Press, adding that Canada "encourages the WHO to engage with experts from Taiwan and to support Taiwan’s meaningful inclusion in global discussions on health.”

But Mr. Champagne added a qualification to Canada’s support that departed from precedent – and may in fact have contradicted Canada’s long-standing position on Beijing’s “one China” policy. “We believe that Taiwan’s role as a non-state observer in the World Health Assembly meetings is in the interest of the international health,” he said.

And there one has it. 

Oh, get stuffed, China!:

The Chinese consulate in Calgary has hit back at Jason Kenney after the Alberta premier called for “a reckoning” with China over the COVID-19 pandemic.

The consulate in Calgary accused Kenney of criticizing China to please U.S. President Donald Trump and said there was a “large body of facts and data” proving China did not downplay or obfuscate the damaging effects of the novel coronavirus.

“If Mr. Premier did not deliberately turn his head away, these facts and evidence are presenting themselves crystal clearly before his eyes,” a statement posted to Twitter said. “If there is a comparison between what he has done during the outbreak with what Wuhan has, he will not look smarter.”

“However,” the statement continued, “we disdain to bring the details up, because attacking Mr. Premier was never one of our goals.”

I would say that is exactly what you meant to do here, China.