Stanley Groper? Not bloody likely:
At this point, no serious world leader should endorse the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. For Canada, it is even more crucial because China had taken two Canadians hostage. Canada has announced it will launch a diplomatic boycott of the Games, but that is not enough. Canadian businesses should completely boycott the Games, too. Canada, along with its allies, must protest China’s belligerence and its dismal human rights record, including its incessant attacks on women’s rights. Peng Shuai has put China’s rape culture front and centre. Justin Trudeau has an opportunity to show the world that he is a real feminist.
Oh, he is.
Soulless, empty, whinging, mincing and supportive of every immoral excess as long as he never has to take responsibility for it.
Remember - HIS groping of a woman was a "learning experience" for everyone else.
I learned what disgusting creep he is.
That the prime minister, and Barton, take credit for the release of the two Canadians held hostage, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, for two years by China is embarrassing. The deal was struck by the U.S. when it waived extradition of the Huawei heiress Meng Wanzhou. ...
During an interview with the CBC Wednesday, Joly did acknowledge that Spavor and Kovrig were “illegally and unjustifiably detained,” she also appeared deferent to the Chinese Communist Party line. “Of course the two Michaels are on bail according to the criminal law in China, and so we want to make sure we work that out with the Chinese government,” she said, as if China’s hostage diplomacy is a normal and routine legal proceeding.
(Sidebar: this party line.)
Another interview she gave to CTV shows Joly’s lack of context in regards to China. She noted that “there’s a growing influence of China in the Indo-Pacific and also the Arctic. That will be my priority for sure.”
Really? China and the Arctic? China’s influence has been growing since Joly was in Grade 8 and now extends globally and reaches deeply inside Canada and the Liberal Party. Is she going to kick Huawei out of Canada, as our allies have done? Join the Quad military alliance to contain China within Asia? Or will she just worry about a Chinese Arctic presence that’s non-existent?
And yet, to Trudeau she’s impeccably qualified: A francophone from Quebec whose family were Liberals. She’s a tireless French language “warrior” whose mentor at a law firm was notorious separatist Lucien Bouchard. In 2013, she headed the Quebec Advisory Committee for Trudeau’s leadership campaign. Along the way, she’s been mostly involved in the not-for-profit, arts, or philanthropic sectors inside Quebec.
She won a seat in 2015 in Montreal and was immediately elevated into cabinet as Minister of Canadian Heritage. Then after a series of missteps — involving a Netflix contract and a Holocaust Memorial in Ottawa — she was demoted to Minister of Tourism, Official Languages, and La Francophonie portfolio. A year later, she became Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages where she was embroiled in controversy again over Laurentian University’s financial woes.
Now she has been given the plum, high-profile foreign affairs post, which means she will be the face, and presence of Canada, at the world’s most prestigious and powerful summits, conferences, and stages.
She obviously lacks context on China, but what of Russia, a country on the eastern border of Europe which happens to be thousands of miles from Quebec. And what of those nagging issues in the Middle East and the rest of the non-Quebec world?
To put it bluntly, Joly has no qualifications for this role which will diminish Canada’s image as a member of the G7 as well as Five Eyes, an intelligence alliance involving the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
So why did she get the gig? One pundit suggested that weak foreign ministers are put in place so that their prime ministers can run the show. This guarantees our influence will continue to shrink.
Dominic Barton is a disgusting human being:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Dominic Barton, our departing ambassador in China, “will be remembered throughout history as one of Canada’s great diplomats.” Terry Glavin begged to differ in these pages, noting that Barton, a former global managing partner with McKinsey & Company, had “questionable intimacies with China’s ruling class.”
McKinsey, where Barton headed up the China office before he took on the global role, is now being scrutinized in the United States for potential conflicts of interest. McKinsey, as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defence, was party to security secrets that would have been of great interest to its Chinese clients, companies controlled by the Communist regime. Inconvenient questions will be put to Barton about whether McKinsey made money in China by selling access to American security information. ...
For decades, the Desmarais family has lobbied for a business-friendly approach to China through the Canada China Business Council (CCBC), which they created in 1978 to bend Canadian foreign policy toward a position that favoured the family and fellow businesses with interests in the People’s Republic.
When Chrétien — who’s linked by marriage to the Desmarais clan — arrived in China in 1994 with the gargantuan “Team Canada” mission just five years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, the CCBC was at the apex of its power.
Barton is from that set. Indeed, the controversial speech he gave advocating for increased business ties with China, even while the two Michaels were being sleep-deprived in harsh confinement, was delivered to the CCBC.
In appointing Barton in September 2019, Trudeau bet that the CCP might cut a deal with an old friend. McKinsey and the CCBC had been arguing for a soft-on-China policy for so long that it was reasonable to think that Beijing might return the favour. After all, Barton and his ilk had been doing lucrative business with the gangster regime for a long time.
Barton took that premise to embarrassing extremes, arranging in 2018 for his McKinsey colleagues to go on a sybaritic “ global retreat ” — with actual red carpets connecting luxurious tents in the desert — within an hour’s walk of the camps where millions of Uighurs had been interned for re-education and forced labour.
Less than a year later, Barton was our man in Beijing.
Of course China can laugh. It's not like Canada is serious or anything:
China on Thursday dismissed the decision by Canada and the United Kingdom to join Washington’s diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games as a “farce.”
China is also not concerned that the officials' absence would spark a chain reaction, and numerous heads of state, government leaders and members of royal families have registered to attend, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a daily briefing.
The three countries have said they won’t send government dignitaries to the games, which run Feb. 4-20, to protest human rights abuses in China, while New Zealand said it informed Beijing earlier that it wouldn’t be sending any officials due to pandemic travel restrictions but had also communicated its human rights concerns.
Under the diplomatic boycott, the countries will still send their athletes to compete.
Eco-piety comes at a great cost:
According to Professor Wu Feng at Beijing Institute of Technology, “A 20-gram cell phone battery can pollute three standard swimming pools of water, and if abandoned on the land, can pollute 1 square kilometer of land for about 50 years.” Compared to cell phone batteries, the pollution caused by the batteries of electric vehicles is far greater. Electric vehicle batteries contain cobalt, manganese, and nickel, which do not degrade on their own. Manganese, for example, pollutes the air, water, and soil, and more than 500 micrograms per cubic meter in the air can cause manganese poisoning.
Another major source of pollution in lithium-ion batteries is the electrolyte. The lithium hexafluorophosphate in the electrolyte is hydrolyzed in the air to produce phosphorus pentafluoride, hydrogen fluoride, and other harmful substances, which is a major threat to soil and water resources. Phosphorus pentafluoride is a strong irritant to human skin, eyes, and mucous membranes, and is also a very reactive compound that hydrolyzes in humid air to produce toxic and corrosive white fumes of hydrogen fluoride.
Li Yongwang, general manager of Synfuels China, indicated that the batteries of electric vehicles are likely to cause far more pollution than the exhaust pollution of petroleum vehicles because exhaust pollution can be controlled, while the cost of recycling electric vehicles is high and difficult. Once the total volume of electric vehicles reaches 10 percent of the total number of vehicles, major pollution problems are expected to be encountered. If the batteries are not properly handled during the recycling, dismantling, and processing stages, fires, explosions, heavy metal pollution, and organic emissions can result.
**
The reality is that, as Britain flaunts its environmental credentials by speckling its coastlines and unspoiled moors and mountains with thousands of wind turbines, it is contributing to a vast man-made lake of poison in northern China. This is the deadly and sinister side of the massively profitable rare-earths industry that the ‘green’ companies profiting from the demand for wind turbines would prefer you knew nothing about.
Hidden out of sight behind smoke-shrouded factory complexes in the city of Baotou, and patrolled by platoons of security guards, lies a five-mile wide ‘tailing’ lake. It has killed farmland for miles around, made thousands of people ill and put one of China’s key waterways in jeopardy.
No comments:
Post a Comment