“Canada’s China Class” – Page 90

Norman Bethune Wasn’t a Good Doctor Nor Is He a Hero

Blacklock’s Reporter, an Ottawa-based news site focused on government business, reports that Parks Canada will use Mandarin-language services at Bethune Memorial House in Gravenhurst, Ontario as part of a bid to “move visitors, volunteers and partners to act as proud ambassadors of Bethune’s values, achievements and humanitarian ideals” and “introduce Parks Canada to a broader audience, in particular of Chinese descent.” Noting that Bethune’s birthplace is one of Canada’s least-visited national historic sites, it hopes to have it recognized by 2027 as “a place of inspiration.” …

He remained relatively obscure in Canada until former prime minister Pierre Trudeau — who had a soft spot for strongmen like Mao and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro — visited China in 1973. The government bought the Bethune house the same year, turning it over to Parks Canada as a national historic site. Bethune has since become the sort of figure who — like James Naismith or the Mad Trapper of Rat River — gets immortalized in official Canadiana as evidence we do indeed have a fascinating past filled with interesting people.

(Sidebar: quelle surprise.)

by Osumashi•March 10, 2021March 10, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", Canada, Distorting history, Politics

Say What?

Indeed:

Xinhua News Agency, the propaganda arm of China’s Communist Party, is out of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery after 57 years. The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa did not comment: “There is no perfect democracy, only democracy that fits best.”

by Osumashi•March 8, 2021March 8, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Censorship in Canada, China, Foreign Influence in Canadian Politics, Politics

How to stop China’s long march

The world is now wide awake to communist hostility — coordinated action must follow

Winston Churchill was rebuked as a warmonger when he tried to alert the United States to the immense danger of the Soviet Union with his “Iron Curtain” speech. In March 1946, the USSR was still America’s heroic ally; Stalin was the benign pipe-smoking Uncle Joe who had valiantly defeated the Germans, thereby sparing countless American boys an early death.

But this wilful ignorance was best captured in another call to arms that also celebrates its 75th anniversary this year: that of George F Kennan’s “Long Telegram” on the sources of Soviet conduct, which was received by the State Department in February 1946. Written by Kennan under the pseudonym ‘Mr X’, the Telegram was an attempt to bore through the layers of ignorance, foolish optimism and disinformation spread by local Communists and Soviet sympathisers. He hoped to mobilise his fellow foreign service officers in the State Department and their chiefs, and through them the press and then Congress, to “contain” the further spread of Stalin’s power across Europe. Kennan had to estrange the USSR in order to make his colleagues and the wider world see its threat.

by Blazingcatfur•February 28, 2021February 28, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State"

John Robson: Justin Trudeau and his cabinet show cowardice by hiding from genocide vote

Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt supposedly roasted President John F. Kennedy’s inaction on civil rights by wishing the author of the 1956 Pulitzer-prize-winning Profiles in Courage would show less profile and more courage. A crack that surely also applies to our prime minister, a fearless social justice warrior when there’s nothing to fear but a bit of a coward when the going gets tough. For instance on this Uyghur genocide business.

by Blazingcatfur•February 24, 2021February 24, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Rex Murphy: The Liberals tried, but they can’t have it both ways on the Uyghur genocide question

The big headline in the U.K.’s Guardian Tuesday morning was “Canada votes to recognize China’s treatment of Uyghur population as genocide.” The headline was only slightly expanded in the first sentence of the article, which read in part, “Canada has become the second country in the world to describe China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority as a genocide …”

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2021February 23, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘Name it for what it is’: MPs implore PM to label China’s treatment of Uighurs a genocide

OTTAWA — Federal MPs are making their case to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to join them in voting to label China’s treatment of the Uighur Muslims a genocide ahead of Monday’s House of Commons vote on the matter.

Speaking on CTV’s Question Period with host Evan Solomon, NDP foreign affairs critic Jack Harris said before Canada evaluates the ramifications of the move, the government must “name it for what it is.”

What it is? It’s Justin protecting the China Class weasels.

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2021February 21, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Gurski: If the head of a spy agency speaks publicly, shouldn’t we listen?

The heads of security intelligence agencies seldom open up. When they do, it is a sign to pay attention.

Canadians witnessed a very rare event recently. The director of CSIS, David Vigneault, gave a speech – virtually, of course – to the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Ottawa. In this all too infrequent occurrence, he talked about what keeps him up at night as the head of Canada’s premier spy agency.

by Blazingcatfur•February 19, 2021February 19, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau said he admired China’s dictatorship — believe him!

There should be no surprise Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he needs more evidence before concluding China’s horrific treatment of its minority Uyghur Muslim population is a genocide, despite having agreed two years ago that Canada’s treatment of its Indigenous population was a genocide.

As Maya Angelou famously put it: “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”

It runs much deeper than the idiot within the Liberal Party.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Senior Liberal MP urges Trudeau cabinet to ‘wake up and smell the roses’ on China

The Liberal chair of the Commons finance committee says a budget recommendation calling on Ottawa to pull out of the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank should serve as a “wake up and smell the roses” moment for Canada.

Liberal MP Wayne Easter, who also served as solicitor-general under Jean Chrétien in charge of Canada’s security agencies, told The Globe and Mail Tuesday that Canada needs to recognize the serious threat China poses to western democracies. He also criticized the fact that universities are still conducting research projects with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

The finance committee in a report Tuesday made the recommendation to withdraw from the AIIB, which the Trudeau government joined in 2017, with plans to contribute US$995-million.

It should be all MP’s period. The China class is well embedded in our political class.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 17, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State"

Trudeau refuses to call Chinese actions genocide

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada must make sure “all the I’s are dotted and the T’s are crossed” before citing China for genocide.

“The primary concern we have as a government that has always been responsible about using this extremely loaded term is not applying it to things that don’t meet the very clear, internationally-recognized criteria around genocide,” said Trudeau at a press conference.

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2021February 17, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

John Robson: Trudeau’s ‘wilful blindness’ to the evils of Chinese communism

If you’re wondering what it would take for the Trudeau administration to get over its crush on Chinese communism, I have no idea. Especially once we learned that despite everything, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) is doing its best to pour our industrial secrets into the Politburo’s pockets via … wait for it … Huawei. And by “despite everything” I mean massive evidence of the Chinese Communist Party’s hostility to human rights and decency, including putting history’s worst mass killer on their banknotes in case anyone was struggling with the concept of “brutal communist dictatorship and loving it.

This is Globalism, Canada’s China class is hard at work.

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2021February 17, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Canada’s China Class – ‘Let’s go learn’: Not for Canada to tell China it’s wrong, N.S. premier Stephen McNeil says

Amid growing calls for a tougher Canadian stance toward China, outgoing Nova Scotia Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil had some provocative advice recently, suggesting politicians here should actually avoid reproaching Beijing.

The federal government is grappling with China’s imprisonment of two Canadians, a clampdown on political freedoms in Hong Kong and the sweeping suppression of the country’s Uyghur minority.

Gee, I wonder who greased his palms?

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2021February 16, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Kelly McParland: What will it take for the Liberals to admit that China is dangerous?

You have to wonder how often knowledgeable people need to attest that China’s is a dangerous, predatory and untrustworthy government before the fact of it begins to sink in and action is taken.

Yet as warnings go, you don’t get more authoritative or plain-spoken than the one issued by David Vigneault, head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, during an online forum.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2021February 16, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Pathogen Pipeline: Chinese Agents In Canada Shipped Deadly Pathogens To The Wuhan Institute Of Virology

Justin Trudeau Xiangguo Qiu Keding Cheng – Everybody say Xi

It is “extremely unlikely” that the virus causing Covid-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), but for the World Health Organization there’s more to the story. According to WHO mouthpiece Peter Ben Emerek, the issue does not even warrant further study.

“Phew. That’s China off the hook, then,” wrote Miranda Devine of the New York Post.

Contrary to Emerek, a food safety and nutrition specialist, not a virologist, the WIV warrants plenty of further study. Consider, for example, recent revelations from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

by Blazingcatfur•February 15, 2021February 15, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Maybe boycotts don’t work, but that doesn’t quite end the debate about the 2022 Olympics in China

The debate about whether Canadian athletes should boycott the next winter Olympics, scheduled to take place in China in 2022, ultimately rests on a series of questions about the efficacy of such action, the morality of proceeding with the games and even who should get to decide whether or not to launch a boycott.

But if the Olympics do proceed with most of the world’s nations represented, the question might then become whether its grand stage could be used to air the political and humanitarian concerns that now encircle the games.

The boycott is the right approach, it will piss off Canada’s China class. The Olympics are just another elitist scam few would miss.

by Blazingcatfur•February 15, 2021February 15, 2021•0•"Bread and Circuses", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State"