Tuesday, June 22, 2021

F--- Off, China

Apologise for the Cultural Revolution, the famine that costs of millions of lives, backing communist regimes in other parts of Asia, the murder and discrimination of ethnic and religious minorities, the appalling abuse of North Koreans, the spreading of a virus that shut down economies and killed millions ....

China and its allies called on Tuesday for an independent investigation into the discovery last month of the remains of more than 200 Indigenous children at a Canadian residential school.

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Canadians should be wary of politicians who enjoy Chinese hospitality and parrot Communist Party lines, the Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations was told last night. “This is part of the pattern,” said New Brunswick Education Minister Dominic Cardy. “You start off with the soft sell.”

 

(Sidebar: why, it's that sort of thing that makes people distrust China.)

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MPs yesterday demanded that a warrant be issued for confidential files that would explain why the Public Health Agency granted security clearance to Chinese scientists at a federal lab. Agency president Iain Stewart yesterday appeared in the Commons for a public shaming over his refusal to release the records: “If this House doesn’t respect its own orders, who will?”


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