What does China have to do before everyone decides that their cheaply-made garbage just isn't worth it anymore?:
However, as Sheila Gunn Reid of Rebel News revealed, the Government of Canada’s $828,046 grant involves working with the same Wuhan Institute of Virology lab the United States is investigating over assertions it is where the COVID-19 virus was born.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says now is not the time for him to raise questions about other countries’ management of the coronavirus pandemic even as some Western allies air concerns about China, where the outbreak began.
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Two former diplomats are warning that the Liberal government’s recent silence on China could reinforce the country’s increasingly belligerent actions on the world stage, amid concerns Chinese officials actively misled the World Health Organization during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.David Mulroney, who served as Canadian ambassador to China in Beijing between 2009 and 2012, said Ottawa’s “almost humiliating” posture toward China in recent weeks was a missed opportunity to acknowledge the country’s shortcomings during the viral outbreak.China has drawn criticism for providing potentially faulty information to the WHO, particularly in the first weeks of the spread of COVID-19, which in turn left world leaders largely ill-prepared for the virus.Guy Saint-Jacques, who served as Canada’s envoy to China from 2012 to 2016, said leaders in Canada and elsewhere need to call for a full investigation of the WHO after it uncritically relayed information from Beijing observers claim could be inaccurate.
One quarter of those 1,267 travelers were foreign nationals — neither permanent residents nor Canadian citizens. Of that one quarter, 40% of were citizens of China:“As of February 2, 2020, there are 1.91M Chinese residents who currently hold valid temporary resident visas. Only 2% (or 39.4K) of them are residents of Wuhan”
Of those temporary residency visas, 99.7% were “multiple entry” allowing the temporary residents to leave and then re-enter Canada several times on the same visa.
Of course.
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The Chinese ambassador to Canada yesterday said the pandemic is not his country’s fault, and cautioned Canadians against “xenophobia”. “China is prepared to deliver aid to Canada,” said Ambassador Cong Peiwu.
(Sidebar: yes, about that ... And do keep your bribes.)
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Canadian foreign aid to China totaled $41 million last year, according to newly-released data from the Department of Foreign Affairs. China has a $13 trillion economy and $10 billion space program: “A deepened and broadened relationship with China is a priority.”
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In a desperate bid in early March to get medical masks for the fight against COVID-19, a Toronto doctor and her friend arranged for five million masks to be shipped directly from a manufacturer in China. They took out a line of credit to pay the deposit as their masks spun off the line and were packed for Canada.Dr. Elaine Chin and Manny Kapur closed the deal and made arrangements, including working with Canada’s federal and provincial governments in Ontario and B.C.“The stuff was at the airport ready to be shipped,” said Kapur. “We had it on the tarmac. I was hearing on the news about companies bringing in 10,000 mask, 5,000 masks — and we had five million masks coming.“Then the craziest thing happened.”Their shipment disappeared at Shanghai airport.“We never got the shipment onto the airplane,” Chin said. “It turns out we were suddenly outbid.”
Why, who would do such a dastardly thing?
Thousands of kits meant to screen for COVID-19 delivered to New Brunswick from a supplier in China last week were contaminated and can't be used at this point.Premier Blaine Higgs told reporters Thursday that he learned about the defective kits a week ago and found the news "disappointing."The problem appeared to be "related to the packaging and the situation around the company," Higgs said when asked about the test kits at his regular coronavirus briefing.Dr. Richard Garceau, a microbiologist-infectologist at the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre in Moncton, told Radio-Canada more than 6,400 test kits were contaminated prior to being used."As soon as we received them, we realized that they were all contaminated with bacteria … In addition to being contaminated, the product was defective," Garceau said.The kits included swabs and sterilized tubes.It wasn't clear how the contamination occurred.
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Canada has received a small fraction of pandemic supplies it’s ordered from China and must check every shipment for shoddy goods, says the Department of Public Works. Inspections take days at a time after thousands of coronavirus test kit swabs were found contaminated with mold, the Commons health committee was told: “How is that possible?”
Why, it's like the Chinese were dishonest brokers.
Surely not!
But they were and still are.
Case in point, North Korea.
On Oct. 10 last year, eight North Korean vessels - several carrying illicit coal shipments - were anchored in Chinese waters off the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan, according to a photo in a U.N. report published online on Friday.That appears to be a lax enforcement by China of U.N. sanctions aimed at curbing Pyongyang's nuclear program under which countries are required to inspect cargo destined to or coming from North Korea that is within their territory or being transported on North Korean-flagged vessels.The annual report to the U.N. Security Council by independent sanctions monitors said North Korea continued to flout council resolutions "through illicit maritime exports of commodities, notably coal and sand" in 2019, earning Pyongyang hundreds of millions of dollars.
Quelle surprise.
The official coronavirus death toll in China has risen sharply after a major revision was announced in the number of Wuhan fatalities. The count jumped by close to 1,300 on Friday, according to AP News.The new figures came as a result of an in depth review of the deaths that took place during the initial chaotic response. The official toll in Wuhan is now up 50 percent to 3,869 deaths. While China’s national totals still have not been revised, Wuhan’s new numbers bring the country’s death toll from 3,342 to 4,632.The higher numbers are not a surprise for many—though coming up with an accurate toll while in the midst of a crisis is virtually impossible.
This all started in 2013. Justin declared his undying love for China, a Third World communist dictatorship, and no one thought anything of it. He continued his fawning and favouritism to China throughout his government.
Look where Canada is now. Major industries like medical equipment and pharmaceuticals are produced anywhere but Canada. The country that gave us this virus is still profiting from our weakness and money spent on faulty supplies. No one, least of all Justin, is doing anything to stop this.
Are we done with China yet?
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