Carney seems willing to throw Taiwan under the bus for his pal Xi

Ottawa May Be Delaying Taiwan Trade Deal to Avoid Upsetting China, Taipei’s Envoy Says

Taiwan’s ambassador to Canada says Ottawa may be delaying the signing of a trade agreement with the island nation as it’s seeking closer ties with Beijing.

Harry Tseng, head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Canada, said in an interview with CBC’s French arm Radio-Canada that Taiwan has been left with the impression that Canada is seeking to improve its relations with China at the expense of its relationship with Taiwan.

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Terry Glavin: Carney-China deal full of Trojan Horses on police and propaganda

“Trojan horses.”

That’s shaping up to be the most useful way of describing several mostly overlooked elements of the “strategic partnership” Prime Minister Mark Carney entered into with Chinese Supreme Leader Xi Jinping in Beijing last month. It wasn’t all about canola and cars.

China and Carney will be the death of Canada.

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Tory MP Questions New Police Cooperation Agreement With China Despite Beijing’s Hostile Actions

Conservative MP and democratic reform critic Michael Cooper is raising concerns about Ottawa’s new agreement with Beijing on cooperation between law enforcement agencies, saying China poses a security threat to Canada.

Cooper asked Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, as he was testifying before the House of Commons Procedure and House Affairs committee on Feb. 5, whether China is a rule of law state and whether it has an independent judiciary.

“I’m not here as a foreign policy expert, nor an expert on China,” Anandasangaree responded.

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Ottawa says it won’t allow Chinese EVs to be used for spying on Canadians

The federal government will take steps to ensure that imported Chinese electrical vehicles cannot be used to spy on Canadians, a parliamentary committee heard Thursday.

Testifying before the procedures and House affairs committee, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Ottawa will put safeguards in place to make sure that Chinese EVs do not have “the capability to transmit information” back home.

He was responding to questions from Bloc Québécois MP Christine Normandin, who raised concerns that Chinese EVs could become “little spies on the road that could record our calls and take pictures of where we are going.”

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Joel Kotkin: Carney is turning Canada into China’s vassal state

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at the recent Davos conference — where he called for decoupling from the U.S. while entering a “strategic partnership” with China — was greeted rapturously abroad. His tough on Trump rhetoric is certainly winning political points at home as well.

Yet, in listing towards China, Carney is not only ignoring geography, but embracing an authoritarian regime far more dangerous than anything coming from MAGA. China’s clear intention is to seek global hegemony based on trade with an array of vassal states. All are then expected to follow Beijing’s party line.

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U.S. interest in Alberta separatism raises red flags over what might come next

Communications between the Trump administration and Alberta’s separatist movement raised alarm at the highest levels in Canada last week. It also raised questions about Washington’s possible intentions.

Some even see dangerous parallels between American efforts to inflame Alberta separatism and the Russian campaign to gin up a separatist movement in eastern Ukraine a decade ago.

Last week, an Alberta separatist group revealed that it was hosted at three meetings by the U.S. State Department.


Honestly as the true nature of the Carney ChiCom alliance is revealed annexation looks better and better.

Energy minister won’t rule out Chinese state-owned companies from buying majority stakes in Canada’s oil patch

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John Ivison: Carney’s diversification plan will turn to disaster if China attacks Taiwan

In his speech at his party’s convention in Calgary on Friday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre expressed his wariness about the “strategic partnership” the Carney government has struck with China.

Cognizant that many western Conservatives welcomed Beijing’s tariff relief on canola provided by an agreement to allow 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into Canada, he did not expand on his misgivings.

The deal is deliberately limited in scope and certainly does not justify the wilder ramblings of some MAGA types like President Donald Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, who mused about Canada and China conducting joint military exercises in the Arctic.

Carney doesn’t care about no Taiwan.

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Risks of working with China outweigh the benefits, Michael Kovrig warns

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trade deal with China has ruffled feathers, especially in Washington, and left many wondering whether the risk of exploitation and retaliation is worth the reward of increased trade.

National Post decided it would be a good time to share insights from China expert Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat who was wrongfully detained for nearly three years in China in retaliation for the arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver. Kovrig has long stressed that China uses economic and political coercion in its dealings with partners.

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Chinese Canadian Group Petitions for Support of Carney’s China Policy While Pushing National Nanjing Memorial Day

OTTAWA — A petition supporting Prime Minister Mark Carney’s re-engagement with China is circulating in Canada’s Chinese diaspora, launched by an organization that has already submitted a policy proposal to the Prime Minister’s Office on establishing a national Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day.

The Chinese Canadian Proposals Committee, registered in Canada on August 31, 2025—several months after Carney’s spring election—proposed in October 2025 that Parliament establish a Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day “as part of a discussion on public history education,” according to a report posted on Weixin, a Chinese social media platform.

Not model immigrant material.

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Canadians now prioritize trade with China over human rights concerns

A growing majority of Canadians now view economic engagement with China as more important than focusing on the country’s human rights record, a new Angus Reid Institute poll shows.

Three-in-five respondents (59%) said trade and investment opportunities should be Canada’s main priority, marking a sharp shift from recent years when human rights concerns dominated public opinion.

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WARMINGTON: Trump’s Bombardier threat latest play in plan to hollow out Canadian business

With one press of a button on a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump sent shockwaves through Canada’s aerospace industry and raised questions about its very future.

It caught many by surprise – but not Unifor National President Lana Payne, who has warned Canadian workers are in the “fight” of their lives.


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Big revenue, trade leverage, and industrial perks: Why Trump’s $264B tariff haul will be hard to give up

WASHINGTON, D.C. — “‘Tariffs’ is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary,” President Donald Trump liked to say early last year, calling it his favourite word and promising they would help usher in a new “golden age” for America.

He was serious.


Bombardier is what’s wrong with Canada, a corporate welfare parasite like so many others whose main business is robbing the public treasury to enrich the elite.

Mass immigration? The elite engaged in a human trafficking scam on a grand scale to line their pockets without care for the profound harm ordinary Canadians would suffer.

Multiculturalism and diversity? Bludgeons used to beat your very existence into the ground.

The media? A bought and paid for elite megaphone serving up a daily dose of propaganda purposely designed to humiliate.

The China Pivot? A villainous effort to keep Canada the elite’s ATM.

I fear Trump far less than I do our “betters”.

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Exploring Venezuela’s Crisis and Canada’s Chinese Influence

Exploring Venezuela’s Crisis and Canada’s Chinese Influence

Canadian conservative and political theorist William Barclay joins The Spectacle Podcast hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay to discuss the future of Venezuela, the relationship between Canada and the U.S., and the rising problems posed by progressive ideology and identity politics.

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Canada deal on Chinese EVs shows trade ‘trumped national security’: experts

Chinese electric vehicles still pose a national security threat despite Canada lifting its tariff blockade, security experts warn, adding that nothing has changed since the previous federal government voiced concerns nearly two years ago.

Yet those experts also warn that the cybersecurity and privacy threats extend beyond Chinese-made vehicles to any car connected to the internet, which requires a robust response from Ottawa.

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Canada, California, and Chinese Electric Cars

Driving down an uncertain road.

On his recent trip to Beijing, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney praised the leadership of Xi Jinping and announced plans to bring 49,000 Chinese electric cars into Canada. In several ways that escaped notice, Carney was following in the footsteps of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

As David Frum notes, Trudeau “traveled to Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union to participate in regime-sponsored propaganda activities,” a reference to the Moscow Economic Conference in April, 1952. Stalin’s USSR came billed as a workers’ state based on the “scientific” principles of Marxism-Leninism, as opposed to the “bourgeois” nations with their market economies. The regime’s admirers assumed that the Communist regime’s products would be superior, but it didn’t turn out that way.

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Note to Mr. Carney, China is not our friend

Well, who saw that coming? Yesterday’s threat from President Donald Trump – that Canada would face 100% tariffs on all exports to the United States (US) if it “does a deal with China” – was widely reported and widely derided in Canadian political circles.

Yet if you strip away the hyperbole and the social media grandstanding, Trump’s response was both predictable and in a narrow strategic sense, reasonable. Think about it; to establish a continental security perimeter against Russia and China, he’s trying to get his hands on Greenland. But even as he’s doing that, the Government of Canada is opening up a backdoor entry point to China.

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