Carney’s Pivot to Beijing: Did the Canada China Business Council Help Pen Ottawa’s China Reset?

Carney’s Pivot to Beijing: Did the Canada China Business Council Help Pen Ottawa’s China Reset?

OTTAWA – In a polished Beijing banquet hall on January 16, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney opened what is perhaps the most important and least analyzed speech of his young premiership by turning first to Olivier Desmarais and the Canada China Business Council.

“We are honored and grateful,” Carney said. After first turning to Desmarais, grandson of former prime minister Jean Chrétien and a scion of the Power Corporation milieu of Montreal, Carney thanked “the team at the Canada China Business Council for your leadership in bringing together, look at this room, this remarkable room, together.”

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CarneyCon

Carney is prepping the Elbow people to be ready for a Canada in steep decline. A decline he orchestrated.

h/t Mauser

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Canada Risks ‘Deep Entanglement’ With Beijing by Opening Its Market to Chinese EVs

Canada Risks ‘Deep Entanglement’ With Beijing by Opening Its Market to Chinese EVs

Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig told MPs that Ottawa’s agreement with Beijing to open its markets to Chinese electric vehicles puts Canada at risk of “deeper economic entanglement” with China and dependency that could erode Canada’s sovereignty.

Kovrig made the comments as he testified on April 16 before the House of Commons science and research committee, which is studying the implications of the Canada–China preliminary joint arrangement on Canada’s electric vehicle sector.

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The Fujian Connection: Canadian Election Interference Site, MSS Officer, and Convicted Snakehead John Chan — the Network Congress Is Now Pushing the IRS to Investigate

The Fujian Connection: Canadian Election Interference Site, MSS Officer, and Convicted Snakehead John Chan — the Network Congress Is Now Pushing the IRS to Investigate

NEW YORK — In the final days of winter, in March 2019, Golden Imperial Court in Brooklyn staged a scene that carried extraordinary significance. At the head banquet table, raising a glass of red wine, was John Chan, the restaurant’s owner. Seated beside him was Li Qing, a younger man from China’s consulate in New York whose title was Overseas Chinese Affairs Officer. To Li’s right was the president of the Fuzhou Langqi Friendship Association, marked by a red sash across his chest.

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‘Massive risk’: Chinese EVs are the first test for Canada’s new strategic partnership with China

‘Massive risk’: Chinese EVs are the first test for Canada’s new strategic partnership with China

OTTAWA — Criticism over Canada allowing Chinese electric vehicles access to Canada’s market is mounting, with industry and geopolitical analysts warning of the risks associated with increased engagement with China.

“It’s a massive risk,” said Brian Kingston, president and CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association.

“Canada’s auto industry depends on our integration with North America and the U.S. specifically, that’s been the foundation of the sector, going all the way back to the auto pact.”

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Carney Liberals will seek nationwide culture change to erase backward Western stigma associated with slave labour practices of ChiCom EV Maker BYD

Carney Liberals will seek nationwide culture change to erase backward Western stigma associated with slave labour practices of ChiCom EV Maker BYD

BYD to open 20 car dealerships in Canada this year

BYD Co. is opening some 20 sales locations with partners in Canada this year as the country’s government is considering Chinese auto-industry investments to reduce dependence on the United States.

“The overture of Canada is a very important one,” Alfredo Altavilla, a former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles manager who now advises BYD in Europe, said in an interview in Paris. “We immediately took action to establish a sales network there.”

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Beijing’s Long Game Is Engulfing Canada—and Mark Carney Is in the Frame

Beijing’s Long Game Is Engulfing Canada—and Mark Carney Is in the Frame

OTTAWA — In policing — particularly in national security and organized crime — we are trained to recognize a simple truth: the most serious threats rarely arrive with warning. They emerge gradually, through relationships, dependencies, and decisions that appear rational in isolation but carry strategic consequences in aggregate.

What concerns me today is not a single incident or headline. It is a pattern.

Consider the sequence.

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Besides winning, what does a Liberal Party that will accept Marilyn Gladu actually stand for?

Besides winning, what does a Liberal Party that will accept Marilyn Gladu actually stand for?

“The whole point of being an MP is to represent your constituents,” a Conservative MP told a local Ontario newspaper back in January, when she backed a call for automatic by-elections following an MP’s defection.

“So if they’re voting you in under one platform,” she continued, “for you to switch for whatever reasons, just seems to me to not be representing what you’re supposed to be there to represent.”

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Before Michael Ma’s Cross-Examination of a China Expert, The Bureau Warned Ottawa That Foreign Interference Witnesses Could Be Targeted

Before Michael Ma’s Cross-Examination of a China Expert, The Bureau Warned Ottawa That Foreign Interference Witnesses Could Be Targeted

OTTAWA — In this discussion with Jason James, I break down the stunning rise of Liberal floor-crosser Michael Ma — a story The Bureau has led Canadian media on with at least 10 investigative reports since mid-December 2025, culminating in our coverage of his suspicious cross-examination of expert Margaret McCuaig-Johnston.

This is a wide-ranging conversation.

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John Ivison: Liberals shove Canada into China’s menacing embrace

John Ivison: Liberals shove Canada into China’s menacing embrace

Canada’s finance minister was in Beijing late last week looking to deepen financial sector ties with China. Francois-Philippe Champagne said he was building on the strategic partnership deal signed between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping “with eyes wide open.”

A more appropriate ophthalmological analogy would have been to say that Canada will henceforth turn a blind eye to Beijing’s excesses.

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Conservative MP Says Toronto Venue Should Reverse Decision to Cancel Shen Yun Shows Since Bomb Threat Was Unfounded

Conservative MP Says Toronto Venue Should Reverse Decision to Cancel Shen Yun Shows Since Bomb Threat Was Unfounded

Conservative MP Marc Dalton says he hopes Shen Yun’s remaining Toronto performances can proceed, since police have confirmed that the bomb threats against the show are unfounded.

“These threats have been a tactic worldwide to derail this production in the past couple of years. I have tickets to attend next week in Vancouver and look forward to it,” Dalton said on social media on April 2.

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Terry Glavin: The muddled and murky world of Michael Ma

Terry Glavin: The muddled and murky world of Michael Ma

You might have thought that the floor-crossing Liberal MP Michael Ma would have been political kryptonite after his March 26 performance at a parliamentary committee looking into the implications of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s January invitation to China to annually export 49,000 electrical vehicles into Canada.

Ma had badgered the expert witness Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, impugned the credibility of the China Strategic Risk Institute where she serves as a senior advisor, demanded to know whether she had personally witnessed acts of forced labour in China and appeared to suggest that Beijing’s persecution of the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang was merely “hearsay.”

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Stellantis talks to build Chinese EVs in Brampton is ‘unacceptable’: Ontario premier

China’s EV Experts

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says “it’s unacceptable” that Stellantis is reportedly in talks with a Chinese automobile manufacturer about the possibility of building Chinese electric vehicles in Canada at its idled ⁠Brampton assembly plant.

A report by Bloomberg News says the alleged talks are with Zhejiang ‌Leapmotor Technology, a Chinese automobile manufacturer with headquarters in Hangzhou, China.

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GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s two-faced policy on China exposes his Davos speech as nonsense

Based on what Prime Minister Mark Carney, a Liberal cabinet minister, and a Liberal MP said publicly about China’s use of forced labour, the idea they are fiercely criticizing Chinese President Xi Jinping about it in private is laughable.

Indeed, watching the performance of Carney, Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson, and former Conservative, now Liberal, MP Michael Ma on the issue over the past week, would have been hilarious if their milquetoast responses weren’t so alarming.

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It’s obvious where Mark Carney stands on forced labour in China

Prime Minister Mark Carney is not oblivious.

He knows, as any reasonable person would, that it looks terrible for one of his MPs to try to undermine an expert witness on forced labour in China during a parliamentary committee meeting.
Last week, Liberal MP Michael Ma grilled Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa, about whether she has personally seen forced labour practices on the ground in

China. “Have you witnessed forced labour in Xinjiang?” Mr. Ma asked Ms. McCuaig-Johnston, as if foreign nationals are invited to privately interview Uyghurs working on factory floors. “Yes or no? So did you get that from hearsay?”

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