Friday, May 29, 2020

RE: Chinese Overlords

An idea of how pervasive the Chinese communist ideology is:

The Canadian Red Cross yesterday defended a federal shipment of pandemic supplies to China, saying Chinese donors have since given three times as much equipment back to Canada. “Everything is of quality,” the Commons health committee was told.

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Australia, of course, has been leading the world in criticizing China over its handling of COVID-19 and doesn’t shy away from calling out Beijing’s leaders despite having closer ties and a deeper trade relationship with China than Canada does.

We all know that Justin Trudeau, who admires China’s basic dictatorship as he famously told us, will not criticize Beijing’s rulers in any meaningful way.

He’s refused to take on China over their handling of COVID-19, has been near silent on the kidnapping of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor and has turned a blind eye to a series of Chinese human rights abuses from the harassment of Christian churches to the horror of putting Uighur Muslims into reeducation camps.

Pressed in the Commons earlier this week on his refusal to condemn Beijing over the latest moves, Trudeau said he was looking out for Canada.

“My job as Prime Minister is to stand up for Canadians,” Trudeau said. “It is to be there to defend the rights of Canadians and to protect Canadians, both at home and abroad. That is why we have been unequivocal in our defence of the two Michaels arbitrarily detained in China; we have continued to work to resolve that situation.”

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer rightly called Trudeau out for invoking the two Michaels in his defence.

“What did he do after two Canadians were held illegally by the PRC? He still wrote that cheque to the Asian infrastructure bank and still gave that institution Canadian taxpayers’ money to help further the advancements of the foreign policy of China,” Scheer said.

Scheer is right, in the face of two Canadians arbitrarily detained, Trudeau gave $256 million to the Beijing controlled bank.

Justin repeats stock phrases while defending his financiers.

One expects that of him.

Where are the calls to boycott Chinese goods? Are hospitals en masse refusing faulty Chinese medical equipment and garb? Are universities refusing students who have ties to the Chinese military?

Of course not. This is Canada and it knows its place under the Chinese boot.

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