And the Rest of It

The trick is also finding one that doesn't exploit its labourers or disincentivise Canadians to not work domestically:

Recent statements by Canada’s ambassador to China, Dominic Barton, that Canada should “seize opportunities in a rising China,” demonstrate that Canada is taking the wrong approach to the PRC. Rather than treating the two Michaels fiasco as a speed bump in an otherwise productive relationship, Canada should view it as an urgent call to divest and scale-down its ties with China. ...

Trade between the two countries more than tripled between 2004 and 2019, to around $3 billion a year, and many of Bangladesh’s agricultural imports already come from Canada. As Bangladesh continues to develop, it offers many opportunities for Canadian companies wanting to tap its consumer market. Bangladesh’s over 165 million people are undergoing a historic transformation, as their wealth increases and buying power grows. Canada needs to be a part of that.

 

 

Just arm yourselves because no one else will help you:

There is an alternative to a treaty: make sure Taiwan, one way or another, has nuclear weapons. ...

Some think the island already possesses an arsenal of such devices. Others, however, are not so sure. "Of course, you can't be completely certain, but most likely Taiwan does not have nuclear weapons after successive American efforts to end those programs," said Richard Fisher of the International Assessment and Strategy Center to Gatestone. At least twice—in the mid-1970s and late 1980s—Washington forced Taiwan to stop secret atomic bomb programs.

(Sidebar: good going, Washington.)

How would Taiwan get its hands on the world's most destructive weaponry now? Taiwan could restart its nuclear weapons program, but even though it may be close to assembling a device—it is, after all, a so-called bomb-in-the-basement country—it would take time to build an arsenal.

 

 

Good: 

Québec for the first time in more than a half century faces diminishing representation in the Commons. Redistricting will see British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario gain seats in a new 342-member House: “This is the first time since 1966 that a province has lost a seat in the House.”

 

 

Pierre and Justin are communists. No one stopped them:

Cabinet under House rules cannot unilaterally deny any unvaccinated MPs their seat in the Commons. The last MP refused entry to the House was Soviet spy Fred Rose (Cartier, Que.), expelled in 1947. Only two others since Confederation were denied their right to sit in the Commons, none for medical reasons: “Maybe it’s something better asked of the Prime Minister.”