It was one of Parliament’s only open windows into the Trudeau government’s secretive dealings with Xi Jinping’s regime in Beijing. It was one of the few vantage points available for Canadians to get a glimpse of the Chinese regime’s influence operations in Canada.
Now it’s gone, at least for now, and while the Liberals’ aversion to any scrutiny of its China diplomacy is well known, it’s falling to the Conservative Party to shake off suspicions that its own internal calculus is the reason why the House of Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations is no more.
“Conservatives are not going soft on China,” Michael Chong, the Conservatives’ shadow minister for foreign affairs, told me Tuesday. “It’s not true. It’s just not true. I want to scream it from the rooftops. The Conservative Party’s position on China remains unchanged, full stop.”
And it is true enough, as far as it goes, but it’s going to be hard for the Conservatives to argue that they’re not getting squeamish about their party’s focus on the Xi regime’s malignant conduct in China, in Canada and abroad — no matter how broadly the party’s policy accords with overwhelming Canadian public opinion.
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The Conservatives managed to establish the Special Committee over the Liberals’ objections in December 2019, but Conservative leader Erin O’Toole won’t be seeing to its restoration when Parliament resumes January 31. Chong makes a persuasive case that the reason is largely a matter of logistics.
Even so, it’s not a good look. David Mulroney, a senior fellow with the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and a former ambassador to China, described the Special Committee’s demise as a “kneecapping,” describing the event this way: “A committee where we learned about Chinese influence operations is shot down by a Chinese influence operation.”
Erin OToole is a Liberal poinsettia.
Every politician is .
They get bags of chink cash to eff us in the azz.
The Chinese CCP only want one thing from Canada.
It’s our natural resources.
They don’t want the people except as slaves and that might be problematic in itself.
Our leaders think they will be the last ones to get eaten.
Well the Chinese joke is on them.
I hope they taste better than bat soup.
Long Pig.
Revenge for the whole building the railroad thingy….
+++++/\ John.
Yep! He is that hockey player who keeps scoring into his own net. ‘By accident’ of course but oddly too often.
Whole thing is kind of pointless. Liberals are never held to account even when things are clearly unethical and/or illegal. So when a committee comes out with findings that are questionable, lol, nobody really cares. Compounded into the problem of RCMP not willing to prosecute actual crimes, an Ethics Commissioner not willing to do anything, bought and paid for media, we also have the general voting public that just doesn’t give a hoot.
The Conservative party probably won’t win any elections for quite a while, so in yet one more area Canada is completely lost.
Coulda had Max!
And Terry helped torpedo Stephen back when so I don’t know why he’s complaining about Justin.
Buyers’ remorse?
What, as leader of a CPC with about 75 seats in parliament, if that many?
I don’t know the answer to the Liberal death grip on Canadian politics, but it sure as hell isn’t Bernier.
Terry, the cat that had orgasms about Canadian school building in Afghanistan? Smart guy I guess, but hopeless.
Look …
Chinese communists have collected so much of the rotting dollars that they will buy anything they want.
Politicians, piece of cake.
The mass media, another portion of the same cake.
The industry, they own it. The brains maybe here, the production is there, that’s where the prosperity is.
It is the position here, that anything that’s made in China can be made here, the margins of profit would be somewhat less.
You know, like slave labor, slave labor conditions, the slave labor pay, this is Chinese advantage.
They can do it because of Apple, Nike and all the big names of industry insatiable greed for stock value with which by the way many here do actually applaud.
And so it will be …. until one day on which the whole house of cards will collapse.
You ain’t seen mayhem yet.
On the optimistic side, the developed world will start from scratch and the currently developing world will live in luxury.
In the workers paradise after the middle of 20th century, the upper crust communists would send their offspring to, of course, the schools in Germany, Britain, France and North America.
We, the proletariat would use terminology, that they went there to study the rotting of capitalism.
A good justification as any, heh.
As I have stated,there will be a cruise ship or two, drop off a few thousand Chinese males into Vancouver,they will be issued uniforms and weapons and they will take over the city with no resistance. Prove me wrong.
Cept, I would kill some of them.
You’re wrong. Now YOU prove you are right.
O’Toole is a great foil for Trudeau. By foil, I mean that unusable floppy bit at the end of a roll.
The CCP and Blackstone own Parliament and a great number of the Globalist politicians and bureaucrats that are housed there collecting huge paychecks and gangster style gold plated pension plans.
Thats the reason why the Conservative Party was replaced with the more CCP friendly Stool Party and their permanent leader, Arun the Stool and the authoritarian top down executive class that run that party , because the CCP and Blackstone like them that way… compliant, obedient, corrupt and compromised… just like the Liberals but with less overt in your face untouchable gangsterism.
The Stool Party are not opposed to anything the Turdhole Party does or says, their policies are almost exactly the same and thats just how the CCP and Blackstone gangsters want it.
We are keeping an eye on China, said a Tory, although all he could actually see was his appendix.