We Don't Have to Trade With China

There is no purpose, really:

The House has passed a bill with the goal of forcing an end to the Chinese regime’s long-running campaign of persecution against the spiritual group Falun Gong.

The bipartisan Falun Gong Protection Act (H.R. 4132), introduced by Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) with 18 co-sponsors, passed by a voice vote on June 25. It is the first U.S. legislative bill addressing Beijing’s brutal suppression of the faith to advance through the chamber.

Falun Gong, a meditation discipline based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, has been the subject of a relentless campaign in communist China designed to eradicate the faith.

For the past 25 years, adherents of the practice—numbering up to 100 million in 1999 according to estimates at the time—have faced lengthy imprisonment, torture, forced labor, and forced organ harvesting.

The Falun Gong Protection Act, which still needs Senate approval, calls for “an immediate end” to the persecution. If signed into law, it will require the United States to shun any cooperation with China in the organ transplantation field and to deploy targeted sanctions and visa restrictions to address the persecution of Falun Gong on the international stage.

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Independent MP Han Dong (Don Valley North, Ont.) has stepped down as co-chair of a Canada-China Legislative Association, records show. Dong as co-chair admitted to at least a dozen phone calls with Chinese Communist Party diplomats under security surveillance: “These conversations were recognized methods of diplomatic communications.”

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Don't worry - he'll get his pension:

The head of the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg says he is stepping down to continue his medical work and take a position at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba, CBC News has learned. 

Since 2020, Dr. Guillaume Poliquin has overseen Canada's only Level 4 virology facility, which is equipped to deal with the most serious and deadly human and animal diseases. 

Poliquin announced his resignation to staff in an internal email on Tuesday. 

"This decision did not come easily, and followed a lot of introspection," Poliquin wrote.

"It has been a wild ride. Truly, it has been the greatest honour of my career to be asked to do this work during the pandemic and I hope I availed myself of the task with some modicum of success, recognizing there is always more work to be done and improvements to be made."

 

Thanks to your lab, you idiot, Chinese scientists smuggled out deadly viruses and handed them to their government.

What a "wild ride" it will be when those get out! 

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When the Chinese government wanted Canada to extradite an allegedly corrupt businessman in 2011, it turned to a Toronto lawyer and erstwhile friend for advice. ...

Ping-Teng Tan suggested a strategy for “repatriating” Lai Changxing that Beijing followed. “I helped the Chinese government solve a very difficult problem,” he boasted to the state-run Phoenix TV network in a 2015 interview on how China could get other such fugitives out of Canada.

But almost 10 years later, Tan is now battling allegations of financial irregularities himself.

The Law Society of Ontario recently suspended his licence to practise as it investigates allegations that he misappropriated more than $500,000 from a client, money intended as a retirement nest egg.

“We have endured mental anguish for an extended period and would like to promptly recover our funds for the sake of our retirement life,” the client said in his complaint.

 

He could always retire in prison. 

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I didn't ask for my money to be used in this way:

Canada’s national pension fund has invested roughly $600 million in China’s electric vehicle (EV) sector, amid accusations from cabinet of unfair trade practices. The government is now mulling potential tariffs on related imports.

Stock bought with Canada Pension premiums included $287 million in Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd., a major EV battery manufacturer in Fujian Province. The pension board also owns $12 million in stock from Great Wall Motor Co., known for its Ora-brand electric cars.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said last week that Chinese EV manufacturers are “quite intentionally generating a global oversupply,” undermining EV producers in Canada and worldwide. She said the public consultation, set to begin on July 2, aims to receive potential policy responses in order to protect 550,000 Canadian jobs related to the sector.

The Epoch Times contacted the pension board for comment, but did not hear back by the time of publication.