A few items on Chinada today, sent by various readers;
Refusing to jump on the “Rah! Rah! Chinada!” bandwagon, is the head of the Toronto Dominion bank, according to this Globe & Mail item on Canadian banking investments in China;

TD boss Ed Clark says he has no interest in chasing the Chinese dragon, and is instead focusing his external growth ambitions on the U.S. market. Through its TD Waterhouse brokerage, TD once had a small presence in Hong Kong, but that has since been shuttered. The bank has no beachheads on the mainland.

According to the Globe, Canada is “missing the boat” – why, the Chinese economy is positively titanic!
You’d think that feminists nationwide would be holding Million Hundred Candle Vigils or something to protest the Martin government’s eagerness to fund abuse against Chinese women with their tax dollars….

[The United Nations Population Fund] works closely with Beijing in that country’s drive to keep birthrates low. And that, critics say, makes it complicit in the forced abortions, forced sterilizations and even infanticides committed daily in China. Without U.S. funding, what will UNFPA do? Well, lucky for them, Canada has stepped in with more money to help make sure UNFPA can continue its work in China and elsewhere.

Read it all at the Western Standard (free registration required).
Speaking of population control, China executes more people than all other countries combined – not surprising, given their long list of capital offenses. But this is progress! According to the Times, their Supreme Court is taking a dim view on those courts known for executing “too many” innocent Chinese. As they say, “better late than ……ah, nevermind”.
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China E-Lobby picks up another acquisition by the Communist Chinese that has gone virtually unnoticed by the Canadian press. Or perhaps they do notice, but the subject is too close to Liberal Party vulnerabilities to risk mentioning too loudly.

CNPC buys up part of another Canadian oil firm: Meanwhile, the Communists continued their poaching of Canadian-owned resources (third and third items) with the Communist-owned China National Petroleum Corporation’s “$1.4 billion acquisition of the Ecuadorean oil assets of Canada’s EnCana Corp. this week” (Washington Times).

Add this to Sinopec’s 40% stake in a $4.5 billion oilsands project and the China National Offshore Oil Corp. purchase of 17% stake in MEGEnergy, as well as their buy out last month of Calgary-based PetroKazakhstan. They’re also eyeing Saskatchewan uranium.
So…. I wonder how long before a troubled Ontario Hydro is privatized to permit investment in “new infrastructure” by our new bestest frends?
A question those in the oppostiion benches might start posing, don’t you think?