Sunday Post

 

Well, that will show them:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will not pay the full price for medical masks that do not live up to medical standards.

(Sidebar: these masks.)

“We have been working very, very hard from the very beginning to bring in PPE,” he said Saturday.

(Sidebar: liar.)

The day before, however, the federal government suspended shipments of N95 respirators from a Montreal-based supplier after about eight million of the masks made in China failed to meet specifications.

Trudeau said the move speaks to the government’s “rigorous verification system” overseen by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

(Sidebar: oh, do you mean this rigorous verification system?)

“We will not pay the full price for masks that we will not be able to use,” he said.

A real leader (one not sucking up to China) would have refused to not only to not pay China anything for its defective merchandise but would have transported ALL medical equipment and pharmaceutical factories, removed all red tape blocks and would have churned out whatever Canada needs in units by the thousands and keep it that way.

But that is not what Canada does:

Such is Canada’s diplomatic dance with China that this week Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne refused to thank Taiwan by name for donating 500,000 masks to Canada. 

(Sidebar: this guy.)

Taiwan maintains it is an independent nation despite China’s claim that it is a Chinese province.

Canada also needs billions of dollars worth of vital personal protective equipment for frontline health workers battling COVID-19, most of which is manufactured in China.

Though countries like Australia and the US are often dependent on China for many things, we find ourselves deeper in Chinese economic waters.

Even worse, Canada under Trudeau supports and apologises for China in such fashion that one cannot help but conclude that Canada aligns with China ideologically (there is something about a dictator that a Liberal loves):

“Reporter: “Is your government standing up to China, or is it backing away from China?”

Trudeau: { does not answer question, ignores follow-up, walks away }”

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Questions allowed by Trudeau:
CBC 167
CTV 90
Global News 75
Toronto Star 29
National Post 14
Sun 4

If you control the questions, you control the narrative.

If you control the narrative, you control the people.#Cdnpoli https://t.co/KR9zTD6jKS

— David Jacobs (@DrJacobsRad) May 10, 2020

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On January 22-23, fifteen W.H.O. executives met to vote on whether to approve China’s cover-up. The vote was split, but it passed. Theresa Tam was one of the fifteen executives. How did she vote? Source: https://t.co/xPyamvG7l1 https://t.co/AxdqaDx0bb

— Ezra Levant 🇨🇳🦠 (@ezralevant) May 10, 2020

This is the China to which Canada is aligned:

Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平) asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to suppress news about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the German intelligence agency BND found, according to a report by German magazine Der Spiegel.

During a conversation on Jan. 21, Xi reportedly asked Tedros not to announce that the virus could be transmitted between humans and to delay any declaration of a coronavirus pandemic.

It took until the end of January before the WHO declared that the coronavirus outbreak needed to receive international attention. Because of China’s delay, the world wasted four to six weeks it could have used better to counter the virus from spreading, the BND concluded.

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Scientists at University College London’s Genetics Institute found almost 200 recurrent genetic mutations of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus—SARS-CoV-2—which the UCL researchers said showed how it is adapting to its human hosts as it spreads.

“Phylogenetic estimates support that the COVID-2 pandemic started sometime around Oct. 6, 2019 to Dec. 11, 2019, which corresponds to the time of the host jump into humans,” the research team, co-led by Francois Balloux, wrote in a study published in the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution.

Balloux said the analysis also found that the CCP virus was and is mutating, as normally happens with viruses, and that a large proportion of the global genetic diversity of the CCP virus causing COVID-19 was found in all of the hardest-hit countries.

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Days before the Wuhan wet market was bleached, whistleblowers were punished and virus samples were destroyed, someone at the high-security Wuhan Institute of Virology censored its virus database in an apparent attempt to disassociate the laboratory from a novel-coronavirus outbreak that would become a global pandemic.

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China presented itself in the role of the savior, willing to rush to the bedside of the sick patient Italy.

Now a Financial Times investigation reveals that those videos were manipulated as part of Beijing's coronavirus propaganda. Hashtags #ThanksChina and #GoChina&Italy were further generated by bots. A report by the Carnegie Endowment called Italy "a target destination for China's propaganda".

 
There is nothing China could do to make Liberals or their voters reject it.

Not even this:

Shandong Gold Mining Co. Ltd. is buying Canadian gold mining company TMAC Resources Inc. for $207.4 million.

The deal will give Shandong – a China-controlled company – control over gold mines on Canadian territory, in effect allowing a hostile foreign power to take control over a key source of wealth in Canada, rather than having it under the control of Canadian Citizens.

The company is controlled by the government of China (aka the Chinese Communist Party), with the government directly controlling 47% of the company, and another 10% being controlled by subsidiaries, combining into a majority stake.

It's like they can't help themselves.


Also - it's a soundbyte, a bit of fluff released to the media that doesn't really violate its trust in China nor a repudiation of the WHO. If one wanted to make China pay through the nose, cancel all debt and seize Chinese assets to pay the tremendous losses it inflicted on Canada:

“Canada encourages the WHO to engage with experts from Taiwan and to support Taiwan’s meaningful inclusion in global discussions on health.”

Good luck with that:

As lockdown provisions continue across Canada, at least two legal advocacy groups are mulling over the possibility of heading to the courts to force provincial governments to roll back some of the more draconian rules that are in place to fight against COVID-19.

In particular, New Brunswick’s travel ban and Alberta’s measures allowing health data to be given to police, in some circumstances, have raised the ire of legal groups.

“We’re considering considering it,” said Joanna Barron, executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, the same outfit that tried to tackle New Brunswick’s cross-border beer ban, when reached by the Post on Saturday and asked about the travel ban.

“It is a pretty clear-cut constitutional violation.”

Quebec made its secularist bed. It can lie in it:

In Quebec, where the Catholic Church historically played a central role in society but has in recent years struggled with low attendance and a lack of revenue, the closures have made an already difficult situation worse.

The slow-witted armchair moisteners might be heartened to hear how the Church is flagging in the West but they fail to keep in mind that the Church is growing in the East and is being populated with people who don't care what a bunch soy-eaters think.

If the Roman Empire couldn't root out the Church, neither can the intellectually and philosophically empty brand of secularism.


Also:

The Trudeau government is increasingly frustrated by recent barbs thrown at it by Premier François Legault and struggles to understand Quebec’s decision to be the first province to gradually reopen all the while being the hardest hit by the COVID-19 virus.

They're just people:

Almost 200,000 surgeries and other procedures, cancer screening tests and clinical trials of experimental medicines were shelved indefinitely as hospitals braced for a possible flood of COVID-19 patients. A deluge that never quite materialized.

Meanwhile, many hospitals have sat barely half-full.

Doctors and patient advocates say the dramatic, overnight retooling of the nation’s health-care system, luckily, didn’t trigger a tsunami of deaths or other bad outcomes for non-COVID patients, thanks largely to careful planning.

But there is evidence of negative impacts nonetheless.

Modelling in Ontario estimated the cancellation of elective heart surgeries would result in more than 30 deaths by early May.

Justin disagrees with Elizabeth May. Oil isn't dead. It's just a thing one can put up with until lesser forms of impractical energy can be publicly paid for:

"As we move forward to a different energy mix, to lower fossil fuel emissions, lower green house gas emissions, we need the innovation, the hard work, and the vision and the creativity of people working right now in the energy sector. We need to support Albertans, and other people working in the energy sector, through this incredible, difficult time," he continued.

"We need their capacity to innovate, and figure out how we're going to move forward towards our greater, greener goals. We can't do it without them."

No, none of this sounds creepy or appealing to simpleton intellects at all:

Another government-supported publishing house is ARP, which is self-described as an outlet that puts "emphasis on progressive political analysis and contemporary issues." A couple of their recent titles include "Sex Work Activism in Canada" and "Blacklife." 

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This might be the creepiest thing Justin has ever done in his life 😳 pic.twitter.com/2hZpzcDHMP

— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) May 9, 2020

(Merci beaucoup)