"There is a level of admiration I actually have for China ..."
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Trudeau was still a child when his prime minister father Pierre Trudeau was introducing him to intimates of Mao Zedong. Within months of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, a teenaged Justin was with his family on a VIP trip to China during which his father made great pains to avoid criticizing the actions of Beijing’s leadership.
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1970: Canada recognizes communist China
Canada establishes ties with Beijing and ends diplomatic relations with Taiwan. The switch takes place more than a year before U.S. President Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China, which eventually leads to American recognition of the communist government in 1979, when the two nations established relations.
1973: Trudeau meets Mao
Pierre Trudeau, who championed establishing diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, meets Mao Zedong, the founder of the communist state. It is the first trip by a Canadian leader to the country since the Communist Party took power in 1949.
1984: China’s premier visits Canada
Zhao Ziyang holds talks with Trudeau in the first visit by a Chinese premier to Canada since the establishment of diplomatic relations. The two governments sign an investment agreement. Zhao meets U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington on the same trip.
1994: Boosting trade
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien brings business leaders to China to expand trade, despite criticism of the government’s bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. A backer of improved ties, Chrétien was in Beijing earlier this month to meet Chinese officials ahead of Carney’s trip.
2006: Criticizing human rights
New Canadian leader Stephen Harper initially takes a tough line on China over its human rights records. He angers the Beijing government in 2007 by meeting the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who has fled China. Harper later shifts to a more moderate approach, visiting China several times to promote trade.
2016: A second Trudeau visits
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Pierre’s son, declares a new era in relations with China on a visit to Beijing. He says ties have been somewhat lacking in stability and regularity. Trudeau meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a return visit in 2017.
2018: Relations crash
Canada detains Meng Wanzhou, a senior executive of China’s Huawei Technologies Co., at the request of the United States. The move sparks a downward spiral in relations that lasts for the rest of Trudeau’s term. China retaliates by detaining two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, on spy charges. All three are released in 2021 under a three-way deal with the U.S.
2022: Huawei banned
Canada bans Huawei equipment from Canada’s 5G networks. Canada also bars Chinese tech company ZTE Corp. from the country’s telecommunication systems. The U.S. had lobbied allies to exclude Huawei over cyberespionage concerns. China says Canada’s move was carried out with the U.S. to suppress Chinese companies in violation of free-market principles.
2023: Diplomats expelled
Canada expels a Chinese diplomat in Toronto whom it accuses of involvement in a plot to intimidate Canadian lawmaker Michael Chong and his relatives in Hong Kong after Chong criticized Beijing’s human rights record. China responds by expelling a Canadian diplomat in Shanghai. Canada also launches an inquiry into whether China interfered in Canadian elections in 2019 and 2021.
Now here we are:
How about instead of becoming the 51st American state,Canada becomes the 23rd Chinese province?
Listening to Prime Minister Mark Carney and his ministers fawn over the Chinese government in Beijing this week, it almost seemed like they would be willing to follow President Xi Jinping down any path he led — and in the end, they did.
The visit culminated with a deal on Friday, whereby 49,000 Chinese-manufactured electric vehicles would enter Canada every year at a tariff rate of six per cent, down from 100 per cent. In exchange, China says it will drop tariffs on some canola products — though not canola oil — and seafood from between 25 per cent and 85 per cent down to either zero or 15 per cent.
While this deal may relieve some pressure on Canadian farmers and, presumably, assist the government in achieving its net-zero goals, the prime minister has potentially just greenlit nearly 50,000 pieces of malign software coming into the country every year, as there are genuine national security concerns with Chinese electric vehicles.
The deal is also certain to annoy U.S. President Donald Trump at a time when the Canada-U.S. trading relationship is under review. The 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese EVs were imposed to align with American tariffs set by Democratic president Joe Biden, less than two years ago.
But lowering the tariffs may prove to be the least troublesome part of this deal, as Carney said the ultimate goal is to “drive considerable Chinese investment into Canada’s auto-sector.” One of the justifications Trump gave for imposing tariffs on North American trading partners, despite existing agreements, was that China had invested in Mexico as a way to gain tariff-free access to the American market.
How does Carney think the Americans will react to China attempting to use Canada as a way into the U.S. market? And is Carney not aware that China’s motivations have less to do with Canada’s suitability as a trading partner and more to do with Xi Jinping’s goal of destabilizing America?
This, and don't think that Carney was hoodwinked.
He knew exactly what he was doing.
This was never about expanding trade or unworkable cars. It was about moving Canada away from the sphere of American influence and forcing these unworkable cars onto a population that will see no use in them.
At least we bucked that dreadful Trump, right?
Does anyone think that Trump will let China sit on the US' northern border?
Further:
It is truly mind boggling the absolute memory hole Canadian activity has disappeared into because people hate Trump so much.
— Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板 (@BaldingsWorld) January 16, 2026
Canada for years has had massive Chinese money laundering, drug, intel, and security issues with regards to China something everybody should know. They… https://t.co/Aa0dDKKz2r
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Ottawa may be walking into a trap by seeking a “strategic partnership” with China, which is losing energy suppliers like Venezuela under U.S. control and could pull Canada into its orbit for resources and away from its allies, longtime China analyst Sheng Xue warns.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has said his government is pursuing a “strategic partnership” with Beijing, as he and several of his cabinet ministers have been meeting with Chinese officials throughout his visit in Beijing in an effort to build closer relations between the two countries.
Sheng, a Toronto-based journalist and pro-democracy activist, told The Epoch Times that Canada “may be falling into a clearly visible strategic trap” by entering into key agreements with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“Currently, the CCP is losing multiple key energy and political pillars simultaneously,” Sheng said.
Sheng added that with the instability of the Venezuelan regime after the recent events involving the United States, as well as the “severe internal turmoil” of the Iranian regime, Beijing “urgently needs to find new sources of energy and raw materials that are politically low-cost, resource-stable, and can be packaged as ‘normal cooperation.’”
Canada’s vast reserves of energy, food, and critical minerals offer exactly these conditions, she said, adding that Canada is also “politically constrained by a legacy of moral self-restraint and globalist narratives,” making it easy to label Canada as a “rational cooperative partner.”
Sheng says that Canada risks undermining cooperation with its allies by developing deeper relations with the CCP, particularly at a time when the United States is seeking to drive out the influence of CCP from the Western hemisphere, as it did in Venezuela.
Venezuela remained “economically viable largely because the Chinese Communist regime purchases the majority of its oil exports and provides critical financial and political support,” Sheng said. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the U.S. administration had concerns about turning Venezuela into an “operating hub” for countries like Iran, Russia, or China.
Sheng said that if Canada becomes an alternative supplier for the CCP in energy and resources it will be “passively dragged” into the CCP’s resource allocation network and damage its strategic trust with allies. This could undermine Canada’s credibility within the Five Eyes and the North American defence system, she added.
Sheng also said that the issue with Carney’s visit to China is not his engagement with Beijing in general, but how the relationship has been framed and his choice of words “at a critical historical juncture.”
“This is not pragmatism; it is a dangerous strategic regression,” she said.
No, it's an outright fire sale.
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Over the past decade, Ottawa has grappled with the detention in China of Canadian citizens for political leverage, repeated attempts at foreign interference, pressure directed at diaspora communities, exploitation of regulatory and financial gaps, and the deliberate use of economic retaliation. These were not concerns raised in hindsight. They were not identified after the fact. They emerged through public inquiries, intelligence reporting, law enforcement investigations, and allied assessments, including parliamentary reviews and Five Eyes cooperation.
Against that record, declaring a strategic alliance without clear terms or parliamentary scrutiny prioritizes momentum over resolving known risks.
The risks are irrelevant, just like citizens are.
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Canada wants to look at joint ventures and investments with Chinese companies within the next three years to build a Canadian electric vehicle with Chinese knowledge, according to a senior Canadian official.
Canadian intelligence officials have warned federal departments about an individual they believe is trying to obtain sensitive information for China’s spy services, Global News has learned.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service confirmed on Friday that it had issued an “espionage advisory” to government departments and universities, notifying them about the person.
“We can confirm that an espionage advisory was shared with certain federal departments and universities regarding a person who is attempting to obtain sensitive and privileged Canadian information on behalf of the People’s Republic of China intelligence services,” a CSIS spokesperson said.
Now one will be able to say a word:
Liberal appointee Senator Yuen Pau Woo (B.C.) yesterday said the Prime Minister has to “watch his back” in promoting friendship with the Chinese Communist Party. The Senator said unnamed “China haters” sought to sabotage close relations with Beijing: “Fifty-first state thinking is deeply embedded in Canada as is Sinophobia.”
Shut up, Grima Worm-tongue.
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