Cowards

It's not a matter of being unable to, of avoiding potential reprisals on two prisoners China has no intention of releasing (f--- off, John Ivison) or something not meeting a legal definition (of which Justin simply hasn't a clue).

It's a matter of won't:

Canadian lawmakers voted to support a motion formally recognizing China’s treatment of its ethnic Muslim Uighur population as a genocide on Monday.

The Conservative motion passed overwhelmingly in the House of Commons with 266 votes to zero. The Liberal cabinet abstained from voting.

An amendment to the motion, proposed by Bloc Quebecois MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, calling on the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Olympic Games out of China if the genocide continues also passed 229 to 29 votes.

 

(Sidebar: that issue is said to matter "deeply" to Justin. Because priorities.)

 

Now that the moral posturing is done (because it's not like Canada will wean itself off of China), what next?

China has been abusing its people since 1949. When Justin declared his undying love for China's dictatorship in 2013,  China had been forcibly repatriating North Korean defectors.

It has already been caught trafficking organs of political prisoners.

Did everyone forget the dying rooms?

In short, it's no secret to anyone in the West what China is guilty of.

Yet none of that stopped Justin from taking funds from Chinese businessmen, attempting to replace the US with China as a major trading partner or even covering for China for the virus it spread all over the globe.

And none of this has had any measurable effect on the Canadian population that would rather hate the US than stop trading with a communist octopus.

For whatever Justin and his Chinese bosses may be, it is the population of this country that tolerates it ad nauseum.

How very Canadian.

Also - sticking it to China, I see: 

A Canadian school program has kept its doors open in China’s Xinjiang region for nearly a decade, collecting tuition and issuing Nova Scotia diplomas to students in the area where large numbers of local Uyghur Muslims were forced into political indoctrination during that time.

Since 2012, the Nova Scotia program at Karamay Senior High School has offered a small number of students a ticket out of Xinjiang, where the government is accused of committing crimes against humanity. On Monday, parliament declared the oppression of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang a genocide.

Established by a Xinjiang city intent on boosting its credentials as an international centre, the senior high school program teaches N.S. courses to those who can afford the tuition of roughly $10,000 per year. It issues diplomas that have given entry to Canadian universities, including in past years for Uyghurs who have been the principal target of Chinese polices in Xinjiang.

But the Sino-Canadian program has also altered its own Grade 10 through 12 program to appeal to officials pursuing a broader agenda of what critics call “cultural cleansing.” This year, the Nova Scotia program has cancelled an elective sociology course, out of fear of angering local authorities. It bars any religious observance on campus, in line with Chinese dictates.

And it operates in a region that recently passed a new regulation that specifically obligates every school to “guide students of all ethnicities to love the Communist Party of China” and “enhance ethnic unity,” a term used to describe policies that have prioritized Chinese language and culture over that of minorities such as the Uyghurs.