I personally thought John McCallum made a splendidly adequate ambassador to China. That's a level of competence vanishingly rare in the modern era of Canadian diplomacy.
Unfortunately for John, after we nabbed Meng Wanzhou he went off script in some public remarks made in China, to the effect that this unfortunate error would soon be corrected, and that was the end of his diplomatic career.
After an exhaustive search, and I am sure thoroughly vetting many potential candidates, Fluffy's leadership team (Chrystia) settled on Dominic Barton as our new ambassador.
The very first sentence of Barton's Wikipedia entry tells us that he is known as Bao Damin in China. Shows you how much the steady stream of anti-China propaganda has poisoned the atmosphere in the year and a half since Barton was appointed to the job. That fact alone would disqualify him today.
More problematic is the work he did for the Chinese Communist Party while he was the top gun at McKinsey and Co. A few years ago that would have been a bonus. He knows his way around the place. But after getting our two minutes of China hate every day on the CBC, the public is far more likely to see this as a liability.
I'll predict he'll be the second ambassador to be sacrificed on the altar of that holy US extradition request!
But things are looking up! Papa Joe is gonna look after China for us now...
And Papa Trudeau is puking in his grave.
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