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It's simple - citizens own Canadian national interests and not Chinese communists:

Canada needs to clarify its foreign investment rules, as the COVID-19 pandemic puts the country at heightened risk of strategic takeovers by aggressive foreign actors like China, several international affairs experts say.

In testimony before a House of Commons committee on Monday, experts repeated the long-held claim that Canada needs to more clearly define what it considers its “strategic interests,”  particularly when the economic fallout from the pandemic has made many Canadian firms ripe for acquisition. 

Ottawa has in recent months signalled that Canadian assets are at a higher risk of foreign takeovers, and has moved to review proposed acquisitions more closely.

Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Ottawa-based Macdonald-Laurier Institute, said potential takeovers by Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are particularly worrisome, as they could be used on behalf of the Communist Party of China to advance its foreign strategic interests.

But without that sweet beer and Netflix money, there could be riots:

According to a draft bill seen by National Post, C-17 tightens the eligibility conditions around CERB, and makes it a criminal offence to knowingly claim money under false pretenses.

Is that so?:

Federal employees vetting the millions of applications for emergency and employment-insurance (EI) benefits during the pandemic have been told to ignore most potential cases of cheating, despite reports of widespread fraud.

We could be just like the North Koreans who get to see their families every decade or so:

The Canadian government will implement a “limited exemption” at the Canada-U.S. border that will allow immediate family members of citizens or permanent residents to enter the country.

No, Derek Sloan shouldn't be booted. He can honestly say that he is a conservative (which is more than any of his colleagues can claim). If he is booted, it should lead to an abandonment of the party system in this country, a tribal ill wind that has blown no good all around:

“The Liberals have said, ‘no, you can’t get counselling and if a parent, as a parent you take your kid to get counselling for this, you can go to jail for five years.’ That’s insane, that’s ridiculous. But on the other hand you’re allowed to put your kid on these you know, invasive medical regimes, you’re allowed to you know, give them these puberty blockers, you’re allowed to literally cut off their healthy you know, breasts and other sex organs. That is child abuse.”

For Mr. McParland, this is an outlandish statement. Make Derek Sloan a villain in this if you must, Mr. McParland, but what will you say if voters agree with him?