Tuesday, May 17, 2022

We Don't Have to Trade With China

Nope:

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Donald Trump called Canada’s supply-managed dairy sector a “disgrace.”

(Sidebar: this mob-controlled supply-managed system.)

Indeed, Canada’s strict system of production quotas, import restrictions and price and quality controls is a perennial target for free traders.

But guess who likes it? The biggest market Canada is wooing right now: China.

Supply management is a big reason why a Chinese corporation is investing an unprecedented $225 million in eastern Ontario. Feihe International, Inc. wants cows. Goats, too. Lots of them.

That’s because as China’s one-child policy phases out, it’s going to need a lot of baby formula.

 

More:

It’s not the first time baby formula has made international headlines. In 2008, China had its own scandal when thousands of toddlers died and were hospitalized after a top manufacturer added melamine to its baby formula. For months, everything was hidden from the public since Beijing did not want any bad publicity as it was hosting the Summer Olympics. This became one of the most significant food safety scandals in history. ...

(Sidebar: this frightful, awful, scandalous thing that should have made every single individual in the West want to stop trading with the country that has "dying rooms" for its unwanted girls and disabled children.)

In Canada, the situation might be a little different. First off, reliance on baby formula in the United States is more acute — about 56 per cent of infants are breastfed up to the age of 6 months, while in Canada, that rate is above 80 per cent, according to the International Journal for Equity in Health. Also, Health Canada has temporarily allowed infant formula brands from the U.S., the U.K., Ireland, and Germany to be imported into Canada. This measure will help put many parents at ease. Still, most of the baby formula consumed in Canada is imported, so any hiccups outside of Canada can impact our supplies, at any given time.

But most Canadians don’t know that Canada is home to a large baby formula plant. In Kingston, Ont., Canada Royal Milk, owned by China’s Feihe International, built a plant back in 2017. It is the largest baby formula plant in Canada by far. However, all its products are shipped back to China. The plant itself uses Canadian cow and goat milk.

For any experts who understand how the Canadian dairy sector works, this is troubling. Not only that cow milk is partially subsidized by Canadian taxpayers, but dairy farmers also have expensive government-sanctioned quotas intended to serve Canadians only. Supply management is about feeding ourselves, and nobody else. Supply management is considered one of the most protectionist policies we have in Canadian agriculture. But for baby formula, we produce for China, almost exclusively. Something is not right.

 

 

Wait - people had to think about this?:

MPs have given Second Reading to a Senate bill to criminalize organ trafficking. Legislators for years tried to pass private bills banishing the trade: “Think of the victims and the people who have suffered horribly as a result of forced organ harvesting and trafficking.”


 

Again, people have to think about this?:

The Commons yesterday voted 168 to 155 to revive a Special Committee on Canada-China Relations to investigate Communist espionage. The election campaign last September 20 interrupted the committee’s probe of the firing of Chinese scientists at a federal lab: “Much more needs to be done.”

 

 

(Merci)


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