We Don't Have to Trade With China

Where is the prime minister who threatens to cut off ties with China or ransack its secret police stations?:

The federal government’s Canada Infrastructure Bank provided $1-billion in financing for BC Ferries’ plan to buy four new ships from a Chinese state-owned shipyard, a fact that Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland did not mention last week when she sharply criticized the purchase.

Ms. Freeland sent a strongly worded letter last week to B.C. Transportation Minister Mike Farnworth expressing her “great consternation and disappointment” with the planned purchase.

The letter referenced a previous $75-million loan by the CIB for four other ferries and Ottawa’s annual grant for ferry operations, but did not mention that the bank is also providing $1-billion in low-interest loans for the specific purchase she was criticizing.

The letter also called on Mr. Farnworth to “verify and confirm with utmost certainty that no federal funding will be diverted to support the acquisition of these new ferries.”

In a statement to The Globe and Mail, CIB spokesperson Hillary Marshall confirmed the bank’s financing for the project but said the CIB is not involved in BC Ferries’ decisions related to awarding contracts.

 

 

So there WAS electoral interference:

Canada’s elections commissioner says she has no evidence the result of the federal election in April was affected by foreign interference, disinformation or voter intimidation.

 

(Sidebar: read that carefully. She did not say that there WASN'T any interference but that the needle did not push either way. Well, I suppose it's alright then!) 

 

In a preliminary report Wednesday, Commissioner Caroline Simard says her office received more than 16,000 complaints about the spring campaign which ended on April 28.

That number is seven times the number of complaints received in the 2019 and 2021 elections.

 

 

Why is he even here? 

What an odious man!: 

Liberal appointee Senator Yuen Pau Woo (B.C.) yesterday served notice of a motion to “examine the risks to Canada and Canadians of complicity” in alleged war crimes committed by Jews. Woo was among 11 Liberal appointees, a tenth of the Senate, to signed petitions accusing Israel of genocide: “We urge senators to do more.”

Luo Shuaiyu did not kill himself:

After a months-long probe over the death of a Chinese medical whistleblower, authorities labeled it a suicide. But his parents and the public aren’t convinced.

Luo Shuaiyu, a medical intern at the Second Xiangya Hospital, was weeks short of completing his graduate study when he was found dead outside his school dormitory building in May 2024, with two buttons missing from his shirt. A pair of glasses of his was found broken on his bed.

His death occurred amid the investigation of a Chinese physician from the same hospital who had operated on patients who didn’t require surgery. The physician, Liu Xiangfeng, was sentenced to 17 years in prison months after Luo’s death.

Luo had collected a large trove of materials implicating Liu and others in the hospital in intentionally harming patients and engaging in organ trade.

A person close to the Luo family told The Epoch Times that Luo had resisted complying with the hospital’s demands to find child donor organs. He died just after he expressed his intention to report the hospital.

In a June report on the probe, Chinese officials, along with the hospital-affiliated Central South University, jointly concluded that Luo had jumped off the building.

Luo’s parents, who are dedicated to uncovering the cause of their son’s death, found the authorities’ pronouncement hard to accept.

“Not much issue here, just that the announcement doesn’t line up with reality,” Luo’s father wrote on Chinese social media platform Weibo.

The Luo family later issued a joint statement challenging the official narrative. The makeup of the investigation group itself already had conflicts of interest, they said. Aside from the fact that the university had a stake in the matter, the family suspected bias in at least one other team involved in the probe. A branch of the Changsha public security bureau that co-led the effort had previously dismissed suspicions around Luo’s death.

“This investigation is, at its core, them investigating themselves,” the family’s statement read.

Many among the Chinese populace appear to agree. The social media posts from the Luo family often generated tens of thousands of shares. One video from Luo’s father in which he thanked the public for their support was played 14 million times.

“It’s us who need to say thanks,” one person wrote under the post. “You and your family paid a heavy price for this to come to light today.”