But rather than chastising the People’s Republic, Canada ought to focus on fostering closer ties, Liberal McNeil said in an interview with a business group honouring his China engagement efforts.
“It’s not our role to go in and tell someone else they’re wrong,” he said on the Canada China Business Council (CCBC) video production late last month. “Our role is to go in and work with them and learn.
“I’m grateful and proud of where I live. I’m proud to be a Canadian,” he added. “But Chinese people are proud to be Chinese. And they have a way of doing things. Let’s go learn. Let’s teach each other. And let us grow economic ties.
Should the Chinese be proud of repatriating North Korean defectors at the point of a gun or female infanticide or organ trafficking or slave labour?
What is it that we can learn from Chinese communists? How to be cruel?
Bonus sack of sh-- material - Justin:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was not prepared to label the ongoing human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang province against the Uyghur people a genocide, saying the term needed to be "properly justified and demonstrated."
Trudeau's hesitance, he says, was "so as not to weaken the application of genocide in situations in the past."
The prime minister, however, had previously used the term when discussing the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada, telling a crowd in 2019 that the he accepted the report's conclusions, "including that what happened amounts to genocide."
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his government's decision to partner with Huawei to create state-of-the-art computer and electrical technologies at Canadian universities, despite months of criticism from international allies and opposition parties.
Federal agency National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) has agreed to work with Huawei to fund research, despite national-security concerns from allies such as the US and the UK.
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