We Don't Have to Trade With China

But I repeat myself:

A series of public revelations about alleged Chinese government meddling in Canadian politics has roiled the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, prompting calls from opposition politicians and China analysts for tighter monitoring of foreign-interference threats within Canada’s borders and a full probe of the alleged activities.

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Justin is hoping that this issue will disappear by the summer's end:

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said his party is waiting on the Liberals to move ahead on a public inquiry on foreign interference, saying the government is to blame for any delays.

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Beijing made an unsolicited donation of Chinese language books to a municipal library in Quebec, which included a piece praising the accomplishments of the Communist Party.

The Chinese consulate in Montreal donated 300 books to a city on the south shore of Montreal in 2017, and attempted another donation in 2019, as first reported by the Journal de Montréal.

The Epoch Times went on-site to assess the collection at the Brossard municipal library. While many books are about the Chinese language, history, and culture, at least one is Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda.

“Overseas Chinese and the New China” features in the collection, which describes the 60 years of “struggle” and “great practices” of the “New China,” a term used to describe China under Communist Party rule since 1949.

The book “profoundly sums up the valuable experience of the sinicization of Marxism,” and seeks to “inspire us to march forward along the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics,” according to a description found on Baidu.com and machine translated with Deepl.

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What they REALLY mean to say is that it is better if THEY control the narrative on China, rather than let people figure out the obvious:

Canadian schools used to focus more on media literacy as part of a slew of cultural policies meant to insulate the country from being overwhelmed by U.S. broadcasting. That included educational programs run by the National Film Board in the early 1980s. MediaSmarts is now an independent successor to a program the board launched in 1994.

Johnson said those programs sought to teach Canadian youth that media are constructions based on conscious and unconscious choices by multiple people, as opposed a simple reflection of reality. The approach helped prepared people to decipher mass-media messages, he said.

So, when Justin is photographed with one of his Chinese financiers, that is merely an illusion, correct?

Wow ...