A DELICATE DANCE WITH CHINA, BUT IT'S CANADIAN VOTERS WHO WILL DECIDE

So, there you have it in one sentence. Canada's government gets you, China but it's the people of Canada that hold such negative views about your country.

- DEAN BAXENDALE

Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister, Melanie Joly headed to Beijing this past week on an unannounced visit to mend relations with Canada’s second biggest trading partner. Canadians first heard about this trip after she had arrived. Perhaps the government, plagued with scandal after scandal and amid a Foreign Interference Inquiry with a clear focus on China’s role in upending democracy in our country, thought the stealth approach was in their best interest.

The Liberal minority government led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have also wished to avoid yet more negative coverage of how it has engaged the PRC for the past nine years. Much has changed in the world as it relates to China’s assertive approach to geopolitics. Canada has not only been a target for high level infiltration but according to independent journalist and author Sam Cooper, a partner in aiding Beijing in its global hegemonic ambitions.

In March of this year, a Foreign Interference inquiry led by Chief Justice Marie Hogue, while limited in its scope has delivered new revelations as to the government’s clear embrace of the CCP inside Canada as partner. According to the explosive National Security Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, NSICOP Report there are 11 MPs and Senators who may have committed acts of treason or have been aiding a foreign government.