A Real Country Would Stand Up For Itself

Let one start by conceding that Canada is a enormous, self-centred, jingoistic baby with an inferiority complex and it has been since the Pearson era.

It wasn't always so. 

Canadians were, at one stage, hard-working people with a sense of self and purpose. They weren't Americans but they weren't Britons, either. They attempted to carve out their identity in the fledgling country of Canada and earned a modicum of respect from those who witnessed its selflessness in times of great need.

Then it all changed when silk-wearing socialists and useless eaters like Pearson and Trudeau I insisted on using the US as a crutch while simultaneously disparaging it. Canada brought itself up by trying to bring the US down. As a result, Canada became weaker culturally and economically. 

Flash-forward to today. It's been a few short years since the snowboard instructor's gushing boy-crush on China -

(Sidebar: this China.)

- launched him headlong into a web of China's making. 

While Justin took Chinese money, China started taking whatever it wanted from Canada.

And here we are today:

Over the last 12 months, Beijing has also been lashing out at any implication that COVID-19 is anything other than a spontaneous, naturally occurring pandemic that was handled perfectly by Chinese state authorities. This saw one of its most dramatic manifestations when China blocked Australian grain imports in retaliation for Canberra pushing for an international probe into COVID-19’s origins. Here again, Global Times echoed the official Chinese position on questioning COVID-19 when it lambasted Canada in a May feature after the House of Commons criticized Beijing’s ties with the WHO. “Like the US, Canada acts like a country with a self-centered ‘giant baby’ mentality who refuses to accept the fact which it is unwilling to believe,” academic Shen Yi was quoted as saying. “The death rate from the coronavirus in Canada, higher than that of China, crushed their illusions and sense of superiority.”

 

(Sidebar: yes, about that ...)

 

China speaks to Justin not as an ally whose actions have temporarily annoyed it but as a wayward servant who needs to be reminded under whose thumb he lives.

Justin has done nothing to truly castigate, isolate or sanction China. Indeed, he sits there and takes its abuse because that is what coolies like Justin do.

In another era, the prime minister would have asked people like Cong Peiwu to leave and take a few of China's embassy staff and Confucius Institutes with him.

Those were the days.