Continued… John McCallum has resigned as ambassador to China at the request of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. […] the move comes after the former ambassador was quoted in StarMetro Vancouver on Friday as saying it would be “great for Canada” if the United States drops an extradition request against a Huawei executive detained in Canada.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
No doubt he will land on his entitlements.
Wonder if we will ever hear the true story of why this occurred. It stinks of a Gerry Butts plot.
A plot from start to finish, very well-orchestrated. There’s no doubt in my mind that McCaalum wanted to comeback home, and made his little statement all according to plan. If this was truly a maverick move, McCallum would have been fired the next day. Instead, this firing comes today, how many days afterward?
Sorry, this all stinks as a well-orchestrated LIBRANO manouever
to be clear, he didn’t get fired, he was asked to resign. There is a difference… A firing is a active act, requires explanation, and means someone somewhere is saying there was wrongdoing. here he was asked to resign, so that he wasn’t going to be a problem during the upcoming election.
I was once asked to resign from my job. The alternative wasn’t mentioned but both my soon-to-be-former employer and I knew what it was.
D.R., I worked as a middle-level researcher at the Conference Board of Canada., back between 1975-1982, and in my final year there I was asked to leave, since I had differences with the then-president (he was often verbally abusive to anyone, including women support staff). I was so upset by that, I fell into a clinical depression while doing PhD studies at Queen’s university. During my four years at Queen’s I didn’t know if I had a job at the end of my four years there. — David Murrell in Fredericton.
a forced resignation is a firing. been there done that and won the lawsuit for un just dismissal.
NO Canadian ambassador ever ‘freelances’ after what happened to Walter Riddell in 1935. Never. McC was conveying exactly the message Spawn, Freeland and Butts wanted conveyed. McC was the expended bullet, promised his alky’s reward if he took one for the team. Just wait to see what cushy appointment he gets after Beijing.
DanBC is entirely right about this was all a maneuvre, except for the part about being well-orchestrated. This was as clumsy as a hippo in ballet shoes.
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Tyrion McCallum belatedly realises he should’ve stayed in
Mackenzie Kings Landing with his ale and his whores…
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“…No doubt he will land on his entitlements …”
I’m still not thinking he is this clever, but maybe he has enough drunken sense to have followed advice: “It’s not going to be any fun anymore being our ambassador to China, John, they are going to be pissed at us for at least a while. And you might be replaced by a new Canadian government in less than a year, anyway. Put your foot in your mouth and start enjoying your lavish MP, Cabinet Minister, Ambassador pensions, now.”
I watch the tire fire that is the Edmonton Oilers.
Watching This PM is kinda the same.
The Oilers are for my entertainment
My government on the other hand…… I can respect a left of center party if they are not a tire fire(nor will I respect a right of center tire fire) But is there anything that this government has done other than dope?
…… crickets. ……
Just another day for Justexit.
“But is there anything that this government has done other than dope? ”
When some of the peoplekind are deemed cabinet material only because they have a vagina, well, you can see how smart (snark) the leadership is. Shallow and token, ummm, ahhhh, hmmmm,
He was just more proof that this federal government is completely incompetent and without merit.
The Oilers have Connor McDavid. Justin has no stars.
Anybody else remember when McCallum admitted he had never heard of the Dieppe operation in the Second World War? And then got Vimy mixed up with Vichy? When he was Defence Minister, of course.
Oh yes, they have accomplished great things in furtherance of the Butts’ agenda. General damage to the Canadian economy by running up vast deficits that severely constrain the efforts of any subsequent Conservative government to get us back on a good path, particular damage to the West and the oil industry, and immigration policies that will further degrade the social cohesion of Canada and make our democracy even more dysfunctional. The legalisation of marijuana was the least of their achievements.
Justin Trudeau is not loyal to Canada.
Good for him, now he can spend more time at the liquor store.
GRM, and here I though Just-In’s troop was a lick-her store
The guy is a hopeless drunk.
THAT man … is your Ambassador to China?? Can you rename the position (so to speak) as Butt-licker to China?? I’d do a serious forensic examination of his assets … including a search for offshore bank accounts and Huawei stock held in Trustee Accts.
You might want to check the family connections; he is married to Nancy Lim and their three sons are also reported to have Chinese wives.
There is too much confusion. When is China finally going to appoint the provincial leader over their territory of Canada?
I do not understand why any conservative would cheer for the firing of John McCallum, he was the best thing to happen to the CPC election campaign since it started.
But Scheep won’t do anything with it. Bernier, however, likely will.
I thought McCallum quit drinking after the scandal when he got tossed off an airline flight a few years ago. Doesn’t mean he didn’t start up again.
He is the guy that cancelled pensions for veterans, and also didn’t know what Dieppe was. Department of Veteran’s Affairs is still recovering from having him as minister.
I wonder how much the Canadian taxpayer has paid for his boozing over his career?
I would guess at least $30,000 per year over the past 20 years.
Has no one bothered to ask WHY Trudeau asked McCalum to resign?
Two words: American pressure. And I’m glad they’re applying it!
Nope.
It was one reason and one reason only.
This one is starting to leave a mark on the Sockmonkey.
This one could perhaps sink his ship as in spite of cashiering McCallum, there is no good outcome for the Sockmonkey on this.
He allows the extradition to go ahead he is seen as a sellout to Trump.
The extradition is canceled, he is seen as a sellout to the Chinese, particularly to official Washington, in both parties.
Frankly the Chinese are going to punish Canada regardless, but if she doesn’t end up in US custody, real soon, it gives Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs because of a security threat more legitimacy.
This story is going to suck all the oxygen out of Ottawa the same way Adscam did.
Don’t over think this.
McCallum was told to resign because it was putting attention on how team Sockmonkey was handling what should be a routine extradition.
Fact one, the Chicoms are of the opinion that they owe nothing to anyone and as far as Canada China relations go it wouldn’t matter what we do to get any Canadian out of Chinese custody, its too late, they are going to make an example out of those that “disrespect” them. So might as well proceed with the extradition tout suite.
Fact two, this story is starting to grow legs for a media that has of late been made to look like they are paid stenographers for team Sockmonkey so there may be some of them that have a vested interest in running with a story that reveals that as far as foreign affairs are concerned, team Sockmonkey makes Joe Clark look like a paragon of diplomatic stratagem.
Fact three, PM Sockmonkey has screwed himself bigtime on this one because if she doesn’t get extradited, it validates Trump’s assertion that justin is weak and is not a trusted ally. If the extradition goes ahead the Chinese will do whatever they can to extract revenge on team Sockmonkey in any way they can.
His mistake was the way this file was slow walked instead of being expedited to get the hot potato out of Canada and into US custody asap, explain that we have a “good faith” agreement with the US that we must honour.
That being said however perhaps there may be a reason team Sockmonkey may not want a Chinese national with assets in Canada to be questioned about financial transactions.
This story just grew some big legs because team Sockmonkey changed their story three times in as many days.
McCallum’s problem is he’s one of the team Martin holdovers that has a habit of thinking out loud.
Joseph, good points, and I have to reiterate, why in hell would any conservative cheer the firing of John McCallum?
The guy was a huge daily embarrassment to Justin Trudeau,and left in place would undoubtedly have made many more gaffes.
So Scheer runs around roaring that he’d fire McCallum,and the next day,Justin DOES exactly that, so Scheer has nothing to bitch about now,and Justin looks decisive, like a guy who (almost) knows what he’s doing.
It might have been better for the CPC’s election prospects if Scheer had left it alone to fester, but whether he said anything about it or not, it was right for the government to remove an ambassador who said what McCallum said in a case like this. So, once PM Castreau did the right thing, our reaction should be to at least acknowledge that McCallum ought to have been removed from that appointment.
Alright folks, here’s what’s going to happen: the good liarberal judge that overseas the hearing will state that the Canadian Ambassador to China has unduly prejudiced the case (good liarberal judges can’t exercise reason once they have heard something on the news unlike jurors who are expected to ignore these things) Presto chango the case is dismissed and the Huawei executive walks. McCallum takes the usual stipend for taking a fall for a Liarberal higher up. (Probably around 5 to 10 million) Then he can turn in his empties and buy Exxon Mobil
Which will have far reaching repercussions on all other US – Canada treaties and agreements.
Trump doesn’t trust the Sockmonkey now, what do you think will happen if Meng is allowed to walk?
And what are the odds she will get lead poisoning if she gets back to China?
https://youtu.be/FkW35T1jQB0
Maybe he has a side line as a surgeon, check this out!
Lol! I remember that show, but who knew John used to do TV shows. Foster Brooks does an excellent impersonation of John
I always liked how Dean Martin could never keep a straight face which was part of the routine, I guess.
I saw Foster Brooks in Vegas. The guy was hilarious. Comedy without vulgarity – almost unheard of today.
Oh, lucky you, he was one of a kind! Probably the only one who did comedy pretending to be drunk. I often wondered if he didn’t have just a little nip before going on stage.
This one was surpassed only by Foster and Dean’s Airline Pilot sketch.
Dean Martin was genuinely broken up comedically by Brooks schtick,so was Don Rickles. Watch some of the old Dean Martin roasts, Brooks had Rickles and Martin almost rolling on the floor. The Hubert Humphrey roast is one of the best of Brooks work.
You’re right,Foster Brooks does a great John McCallum impression.
What a totally incompetent government. It has been a domestic and international joke in many ways from day one with results not at all funny. It has accomplished only three things, largely destroyed the energy resource industry, raised taxes, and massively increased the national debt.
If stupidity was a crime Trudeau and most of his cabinet would be in jail, and this pathetic excuse for an ambassador was actually an asset to the Conservatives.
“If stupidity was a crime Trudeau and most of his cabinet would be in jail”
Don’t forget over half of the voters
Keep in mind that Justin wasn’t going to remove McCallum after the initial treasonous comments.
McCallum was removed because the weasel party he serves threw him under the bus. It was him or them. They’ll cozy up to China when no one is looking.
Any Canadian who find this entire spectacle nothing that would hinder his or her voting for the Liberal Party needs to be introduced to the nearest active volcano.
” . . . the former ambassador was quoted in StarMetro Vancouver on Friday as saying it would be “great for Canada” if the United States drops an extradition request against a Huawei executive detained in Canada.”
He wasn’t wrong.
I was an economics prof for 33 years (retired now, but doing volunteer research), and during my earlier days I got to read and listen to John McCallum, when he was a professor at McGill U. Way back then he was a decent enough fellow, well respected in his profession. I even had two of his academic articles on my universiity-course reading lists.
I forget when he began to show his Liberal leanings. He was, after his professorship, a high-profile chief economist at Royal Bank — his income probably went up from $200,000 a year to $1,000,000+ a year with that move But as a Liberal in the corrupt Jean Chretien government, he was up to his eyeballs in sleaze. The worst of it was when he accepted paid trips to China, from the Chinese government, where at that point he became a pro-China-lobby operative. These last two weeks showed him at his worst. He has become a total embarrassment.