Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week apple cider ... 


Dance, monkey, dance!:

 Toe-curling footage has emerged of Chinese President Xi Jinping humiliating Justin Trudeau with a dressing down on the sidelines of the G20 conference.

The two leaders were caught on camera having a heated discussion at the global summit in Bali today, with Xi tearing into the Canadian Prime Minister.

Xi appeared visibly frustrated as he confronted Trudeau about how details of an earlier meeting between them, which was held yesterday, had been leaked to the press by Canadian government sources.

To add to the tensions, a planned meeting between Rishi Sunak and Xi was called off today, hours after the new prime minister was urged not to 'go soft' on the Chinese premier.

Number 10 expected a 'frank' meeting with the 'authoritarian leadership intent on reshaping the international order' but there does not appear to be any thawing in relations between China and the West.

Canadian sources had reported that Trudeau raised 'serious concerns' with Xi over suspected domestic interference by China during their first talks together in more than three years.

But Xi, trying to mask his anger with a pointed smile, was filmed by Canadian journalists telling an increasingly awkward-looking Trudeau: 'Everything that we discussed yesterday has been leaked to the papers and that's not appropriate.'

A stunned Trudeau, almost at a loss for words, just nodded as Xi continued his rant through a translator. The Chinese President looked pointedly at Trudeau and added: 'And that's not the way the conversation was conducted.'

Trudeau, knowing that details of his meeting with Xi had been leaked by his Canadian government sources, did not address the Chinese President's concerns and instead gave a hapless response.

 

Who do you work for today, Justin?


For further loss of dignity, this shot from different angles:

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Also:

Conservative MP Garnett Genuis blasted the Liberal government over a report by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service that found at least 11 candidates received Chinese cash in the last federal election. 

In response to the Liberals refusing to disclose which candidates received the approximately $250,000 in funding, Genuis claimed the Liberals were the ones benefiting from Beijing’s interference. 



The pantomime continues:

The day before the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki had prepared notes advising cabinet there were other tools available and that police finally had a plan in place to address the Ottawa protests but she never delivered the message.


More:

The country’s top Mountie acknowledged the omission during hours of testimony at the inquiry examining the act’s use on Tuesday in which she couldn’t recall key meetings during the protests; said she didn’t understand the role the Emergencies Act could play; and was unable to explain comments from meetings and text exchanges that she participated in.

 

Covering her butt.

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As I was saying:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau considered the Freedom Convoy an international embarrassment, say secret minutes of a cabinet meeting. One minister called it a “concentrated effort to make this country look bad,” while Ambassador Ralph Goodale complained from Britain there was “disbelief that this is happening in Canada.”



We're all going to die!

Or something!:

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Respiratory viruses tend to be seasonal in Canada, said Dr. Lynora Saxinger, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Alberta.

“After you have a light year of a respiratory virus, there’s fewer people that have partial immunity because it just wasn’t transmitting as much, and then you tend to have a heavier year after that,” said Saxinger. “We kind of have a layering problem going on right now where we have, influenza coming back with less partial population immunity. RSV is coming back, same thing, all of the viruses are coming back.”

Children tend to get exposed to plenty of viruses in their early years. Unless, of course, they were young at the start of the pandemic and missed those rounds of viral infections because of COVID-19 measures meant to protect people during the pandemic.

There are also socioeconomic factors at play, said Dawn Bowdish, the Canada Research Chair in aging and immunity at McMaster University.

“If parents have to go to work because they can’t afford not to, they’re going to send their kids with a fever suppressant medication to school, they’re gonna get other kids sick, and on and on and on it goes,” Bowdish said.

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Anything for attention:

According to Tam, without immediate and significant action climate change “poses catastrophic risks for present and future generations” and “the livability of the planet.” The report says that cities like New York and Shanghai, neither of which is in Canada of course, may be underwater within our lifetimes. To save the planet, the public health bureaucracy must take “assertive and effective action across jurisdictions and sectors.” How exceedingly convenient for Tam that with the pandemic now effectively over — COVID-19 being relegated to an appendix in her report — there is still this other alleged crisis whose management demands allowing her and her bureaucracy to maintain significant control over society.

 

 It's just money:

Trudeau has earmarked $750 million for a Crown corporation to finance infrastructure projects in Asia over three years, starting next March.

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The Public Health Agency spent more than $43 million hiring security guards to make house calls on returning cross-border travelers, records show. Private security firms completed almost 600,000 “door knocks” to enforce quarantine rules: “What recourse is the Agency making available to individuals who are harassed?”



A real opposition would ask why we aren't protecting our part of the Arctic:

Satellites essential for surveillance of Canada’s Arctic are “nearing their end” by 2026, the Auditor General warned yesterday. Analysts identified what they called significant gaps in federal know-how on who is active in northern waters and why: “This finding matters.”

 

 

Nice media you've got there.

It would be a shame if anything happened to it:

On Tuesday, a witness before a Senate committee alleged that she was subject to intimidation from the federal government for voicing concerns about the Liberal’s Bill C-11, which has been widely dubbed as the online censorship bill.

When asked by Senator Leo Housakos to share her experiences dealing with Canadian Heritage, First Nations witness Vanessa Brousseau explained that “one ministry” had “gas-lit” her and intimidated her after she shared her thoughts on the law.


 

Go ahead and strike. 

Watch what might happen: 

This month, the sisters completed another milestone, graduating from the University of Toronto with master’s in Slavic languages and literature. Sophia was 20 when she completed her coursework this fall, while Isabel was 17. The family believes Isabel — the middle of three daughters — is the youngest person in history to obtain a master’s from the school.

The children of lawyers who met at U of A law school, Sophia and Isabel were homeschooled by their mother Mena. Both sisters’ educations were largely self-directed, and both took early interest in languages, particularly ones with connections to their family background.

 

 

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