Chinada

“Ottawa can’t seem to shake this tendency to flatter”

Two former diplomats are warning that the Liberal government’s recent silence on China could reinforce the country’s increasingly belligerent actions on the world stage, amid concerns Chinese officials actively misled the World Health Organization during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
David Mulroney, who served as Canadian ambassador to China in Beijing between 2009 and 2012, said Ottawa’s “almost humiliating” posture toward China in recent weeks was a missed opportunity to acknowledge the country’s shortcomings during the viral outbreak.
 
China has drawn criticism for providing potentially faulty information to the WHO, particularly in the first weeks of the spread of COVID-19, which in turn left world leaders largely ill-prepared for the virus.
 
Guy Saint-Jacques, who served as Canada’s envoy to China from 2012 to 2016, said leaders in Canada and elsewhere need to call for a full investigation of the WHO after it uncritically relayed information from Beijing observers claim could be inaccurate.
 
He also denounced recent “reprehensible” comments by Health Minister Patty Hajdu, who dismissed claims about faulty Chinese reporting as “conspiracy theories” that originated “on the Internet.”
 
Mulroney said the recent silence by Ottawa is part of a long-standing instinct to gloss over Chinese aggressions, largely due to its tendency to retaliate and its growing economic heft. But an unwillingness to acknowledge even the possibility of Chinese misdeeds could sow public distrust.

Related: Bob Fife & Co. rip off Sheila Gunn Reid’s story without attribution.

32 Replies to “Chinada”

  1. Not silence, the slobbering sounds and moaning were heard loud and clear. Blackie put China first and pretended to put Canada second. He did it when he sent them 16 tons of our emergency supplies. He did it when he sent them funds for the very Wuhan lab that probably is the source of the Kung flu. He did that when after the outbreak he gave Visas to hundreds of Wuhan residents. Actions speak louder than words, and apart for Tedros, China could not count on a more loyal and humble, bootlicking serf.

  2. If Canadian Liberal Ministers Were Honest
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=MDywJ6QEiKc&feature=emb_logo

    I believe Kate posted the Minister Hachoo…Wuhan Flu! speaking accurately in the video above.

    Now Is Exactly the Time to Investigate the WHO’s Catastrophic Public Failures and Internal Rot
    https://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/now-is-exactly-the-time-to-investigate-the-whos-catastrophic-public-failures-and-internal-rot/

    We can also launch a study of our co-opted CCP talking points LIEberal farcical excuse for a Sidewinder government.

    Cheers

    Hans Rupprecht – Commander in Chief
    Army Group “True North”
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army

  3. Is the Trudeau Liberal government funding a Wuhan Lab,,, or are they paying a ransom to have imprisoned Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor released ?
    Any MEDIA wanna ask Trudeau that ???

      1. Blackie wants the Michaels released as he know the media fawning that he would receive,,, a hero, a great leader for his patience and negotiating prowess. He can already hear the accolades in his own mind and I don’t doubt Canadians would lick it up.

        1. That is a good point. For the purpose of good PR he actually might be inclined to lick Chicom boot extra eagerly.

  4. Well, I am happy that some people in Canada know and acknowledge that our government has been lying to us big time. Kudos to Jason Kenny and those two former ambassadors, and Rebel News, and SDA, of course.

    Sent from my winter home in California, isolating according to rules here. I am an USA guest, but want to go home, before I wear out my welcome. I phoned Hedy Fry ( my unsavory MP) today, but she does not give a hoot, according to her phone assistant. The PM is playing politics, telling everyone that air travel is not going to happen. We need some planes to fly. But, he is bringing home people from weird countries, For free, but not me. I have a booked paid flight with my dog, cancelled once, and re-booked for May.

  5. L, you won’t have to worry about any of that in the future. The government has found a way to force all people into whatever box they deem appropriate and travel will be one of the one’s that will not be acceptable. We were forced to come back from our perch in Florida long before usual because we were a danger to Canada and Canadians, that is the only way I can describe it. Now we have given government the ability to really herd us and force things on us that we would never accept. I for one find it dangerous beyond anything that has ever happened and unacceptable. I guess the next step for me will be a forced death.

    1. You are probably right. I will probably not be able to come back here next November. I did not try very hard to obey the Trudeau order to come home In March, so am suffering the consequences. You made it back. We support our snowbird economies in the USA and they know that and appreciate the business.

      I need to bring my dog, but one has to do Arrange that by phone. Calling in the middle of the night worked. What I want to tell Trudeau is that he should let some planes fly in May. He is being an idiot, trying to pretend that Canada is a real country. Wexit. Please. Take bc too.

      1. L, maybe you should just stay as an illegal immigrant. Apparently free food and medical care is available.

        1. Good idea, but no. Against my values, as I am a guest. The IRS would bite me, too, as I actually have $, unlike the rest of the illegals.

          Canucks have to wait 5 years for Medicaid and pay all capital gains. Maybe I could say I was born in South Africa or something.

          1. Just identify as a gay, handicapped Somali, this will do the trick guaranteed.

          2. L, that tends to be my problem as well, the IRS and some $. I doubt SA would work if you are white.

  6. MSM journos don’t even care anymore, it seems…how many stories have they hacked from the rebel over the past few years? And then they’re not allowed in the press gallery? What a literal bunch of hacks…

    1. Just yesterday I was wondering what do reporters read? Fife is a certified asshole and now we can add thief.

      1. People have been complaining about the Canadian Media(me too) since my first day here.
        Which was back in the dial-up in Delisle days.

        Unfortunately, it appears that conservatives like their virtual anger and complaining. Obviously, as it has never surfaced in real life as conservatives do their usual wild animal impression vis a vis the Media.
        I believe it’s called a turtle.

        I know this because the Media hasn’t changed.
        It hasn’t got better.
        Or less biased.
        Or less partisan.
        Or less corrupt.
        Still Liberal.
        Still Librano.

        After a lifetime of supporting the Conservative Party in its various iterations, all I can say is, your guess is as good as mine whether the Conservative Party is actually the Washington Generals or the Joe Btfsplk of inept, incompetent political parties.

        Either way, we’re hooped.

        Kill the Liberal Party.
        Fix the Conservative Party.
        Blow up the Media first.

        We need a champion in a country with darn few of them.
        Who can succeed against formidable opponents.
        Who can lead an army of uninformed, apathetic dolts who may desert at any moment.

        Never mind.

  7. People like hajdu are looking to make a lot of $$$$ working with the Chinese when she loses her present job. In the meantime, it’s suck up, lie and betray her country.

    1. “Profit does not equate to wealth when you become a vassal state that can’t even make a fucking hospital mask.”

      Beauty!

  8. “silence by Ottawa is part of a long-standing instinct to gloss over Chinese aggressions, largely due to its tendency to retaliate and its growing economic heft. ..”

    How about plain English:

    … largely due to the fact that if turdo or his Ivory Tower Trash friends pissed off the Chicomms, they might lose their investments over there and white envelopes over here.

    Canada: old Mohawk word meaning “puppy-pissing-on-the-floor”

  9. The Liberal Party of Canada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party. Rope, lamppost, Liberal politician. Some assembly required.

  10. Anyone who think that Canadian government grant agencies are unbiased nonpartisan incorruptible bastions of scientific truth is a naive fool. They are as corrupt as any agency can be. They just cloak themselves in the sacred tenants of peer review and the pure search for truth. Only the excellent get funded. Who gets to choose who is excellent enough to be funded? The ones the committee choses to fund. Who gets chosen to be on the committee? The people the committee gets to decide who are excellent enough to be on the committee. Who always gets funded? The committee members of course because they are the most excellent. They are proud of and boast about how only 10% of the most excellent of excellent qualified scientists actually get funding. The worst of it is that if Ottawa simply disbanded the entire corrupt bureaucracy running scientific grant funding, disbanded the committees with their huge expense accounts flying around to meet and discuss who is excellent enough to be funded, and gave every qualified university professor the grant they ask for, it would actually cost government less! That has been proven scientifically in peer reviewed literature. So it does not surprise me at all to learn a professor working with the Chinese got an enormous grant. In fact I have been wondering what China got to be allowing all that PPE out of the country. That $825,000 is just a down payment I’m sure.

  11. Apparently Canadian researchers are too bloody dumb to do anything, so the head idiot in Ottawa would rather that his big brother Chinese do it. Maybe there is a UN job that he is after.

    How can normal people in this country vote for such megalomaniac?
    It’s a rhetorical question.

  12. I would only play poker with Robert Fife with my hand gun loaded under the table!
    The Chinese communist party had a little virus thing get away from them and the World Health boys helped them keep it under raps !!!!
    I feel they have been working on a Biological weapon– and our village idiot is helping to fund them!

    In this mess Trudeau should have demanded the RELEASE of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor , but then who would be putting funds in the Trudeau Trust Fund!!
    Why WE in the West needed to Separate 50 years ago!

  13. If it’s any comfort 80-85 years ago lots of folks in the English speaking world were doing the same thing with the Germans and Japanese that we’re doing now with the Chinese.

  14. Example of leftist double speak Wuhan lab outbreak – Lie outright and by omission, obfuscate, propagandize, suppress, threaten, insult;

    And when that all fails and the truth comes out – say it’s “old news” you know “baked in the cake.”

    Not. This.Time.Folks.

    The public knows Chinese leadership was negligent, at least, and is trying to get away with it, raising further suspicion.

    Meanwhile Demosaurs and DeMarxists, again showing their keen sense of being precisely wrong, oppose return to normalcy.

    Again misreading and ignoring the public craving to return to work, and normalcy, to ball games and restuarants.

    Incomprehensibly not understanding their dirty laundry of defying all Trump measures, they goose step to Trump wrong.

    Do they honestly think Americans will choose babbling Biden over tortuous Trump? Not in their life imho.

  15. “Kiss @s$” is not spelled flatter. Just wanted to point out that spelling error. Hope it helps (wink)

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