Wang Dang Meng Wanzhou

After 34 months in Canadian custody, Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou pleads not guilty in a US court to all the stuff they had the Canadians arrest her for.

The Americans drop all charges, on condition she promises not to talk about any of the stuff she just pleaded not guilty to.

Case closed!

Wang dang, sweet… justice?

WTF just happened here?

Almost three years ago, Canadian authorities nabbed Meng, per US instructions, as she was on her way to Mexico.

The Americans were pissed with Meng because her Daddy’s company, the Chinese tech giant Huawei, was playing fast and loose with America’s unilateral, and based on nothing in international law, sanctions against trade with Iran.

At the time America’s extradition request came in, we could have showed a little spine and asked President Trump on what grounds we were obliged to honour unilateral extralegal sanctions on Iran. Instead, PM Trudeau, seeking to suck up to Mafia Don behind the scenes while pretending to be anti-Trump in front of the cameras, jumped at the chance to gain a few brownie points in Washington.

A few days after we snatched Meng, China snatched a couple of Canadians. These were not random Canadian tourists. They weren’t necessarily “spies” either, but who’s to say that China’s justification for nabbing The Two Michaels were any dodgier than our justification for the arrest of Wanzhou?

The Two Michaels have become a cause celebre in Canada. Their detention has spawned a thousand anti-China op-eds in our legacy media. The Globe and Mail has been counting their days in captivity on its front page - today was 1019.

Hey, no matter how you slice it, Meng’s been incarcerated longer. We acted. They reacted.

Yes, The Two Michaels Drama was instigated by Canada, not China.

Having had 1019 days in which to acknowledge a serious mistake, free Meng, and get The Two Michaels home, the Trudeau government has done absolutely nothing. We don’t want to piss off Biden either.

So today Washington is going to free Meng, and by extension, The Two Michaels.

Where does that leave Canada as an “independent” nation?

Puerto Rico has more independence from Washington than Ottawa does!

China: goofy, klutzy, clumsy, dumb, and dumber

Those are a few of the descriptors Globe and Mail journo Campbell Clark tosses into today's two minutes of China hate. 

Those silly fools! They are the "Keystone Kops of propaganda," don't you know! Look how we rattled them with our sanctions! They sanctioned a few Canadians right back, and now the whole world is rallying to Canada's side, or if not the whole world, at least Joe and Boris. Har-de-har har, those dumbass Chinese!

Having surrendered our sovereignty for the sake of America's illegal and immoral sanctions on Iran by nabbing Meng Wanzhou, we plucky Canucks now look to Boris and Joe to bail us out. I'm sure freedom for the two Michaels is so close they can almost taste it...

Do the people publishing this nonsense really believe that the daily trashing of China in the pages of the Globe and Mail is in any way conducive to improving relations between our countries?

Canada stands with Trump and Pompeo

The Two Michaels rule the front page of The Globe and Mail again today, but there is a hopeful sign the paper is easing its censorship of an obvious counter-narrative to the "rule of law" idiocy PM Trudeau's office has steadfastly put forward for the last year and a half.

"Ottawa can free Meng now, Arbour says," reads the top headline. Louise Arbour is one of the most widely respected international jurists Canada has ever produced.

The Globe and Mail could have splashed that headline across any of its 450+ front pages it has published since Kovrig and Spavor were apprehended, because it's not "news" that the government has had the authority to legally and with all due respect for "rule of law" send Meng  home since the day we foolishly took her into custody.

Our first and wisest choice would have been to decline the US extradition request in the first place. What is it to Canada if a Chinese company ignores arbitrary and unilateral sanctions America has imposed on Iran?

Instead, we've been presented a steady stream of drivel about how our refusing to toady to the Americans would violate "the rule of law," whereas the sanctions themselves, having utterly no basis in any kind of law, are treated as some sort of self-evident act of moral virtue.

Uncle Sam good, Ayatollahs bad, and that's all any good Canadian needs to know.


By sucking up to the likes of Trump and Pompeo, Canada is further squandering whatever credibility she may once have enjoyed as an independent actor on the world stage.

Canada's new PPE supply chain flunks first test

Just eight days ago the CBC was regaling us with a yarn about how Canada was "building our own supply chain for PPE." I thought at the time building "our" supply chain in China was perhaps not the most sensible course of action.

Today it was revealed that the cargo jets sent to pick up the output from "our" supply chain returned to Canada empty.

Hate to say I told ya so, but here you go.

Maybe Dominic Barton thought he had enough shlep with the commies to pull this off, but after we kidnapped Meng Wanzhou and the Chinese kidnapped the two Michaels in retaliation, it was obvious that some hostage trading needed to happen before we considered China as the place for "our" PPE supply chain.

You'd think this would have occurred to the guy who spent years as the global boss of international business consultancy McKinsey and Company.

What we're talking about when we talk about "rule of law"

As every good Canuck knows, nobody does rule of law rulier or lawier than we do. Look up "rule of law" in the encyclopedia and there's a picture of a little beaver waving the Maple Leaf.

That's us!

"Rule of law" has become a get-out-of-jail-free card for those who make our laws and rules.

Wanna slap Meng Wanzhou in the slammer for a couple years to disabuse the Yellow Peril of their fantasies about 5G dominance? Rule of law! We had no choice!

A jerk-off US hedge-fund titan loots Sears Canada for billions and leaves 16,000 Canadian pensioners in the lurch? Rule of law! We had no choice!

Another US hedge-fund titan adds billions to the value of CP Rail by killing over five thousand excellent Canadian working class jobs. We are so grateful we thank Bill Ackman for making this Canadian icon more efficient, and gift him a couple of billions as a token of our gratitude.

We had no choice... rule of law!

But nothing throws into relief our attachment to rule of law quite like the Wet'suwet'en debacle. At least we've cleared up one of the great mysteries of this rule-of-law juggernaut.

When we talk about rule of law, we talk about the rule of White Man's Law.

Yup, all of Justin's vacuous twaddle about reconciliation and mutual respect and nation-to-nation dialogue is going down the shitter even as I type these words.

Now he's asking  our FN neighbours, living with the legacy of 400 years of betrayal and broken promises, to be patient. At least he's being even-handed; that's also what he's asking of the non-natives who have been inconvenienced by the rail blockade for a couple weeks.

We are, after all, a fair and just nation, governed by the rule of law...

BoJo grows a pair

Well, this was unexpected.

I fully expected the other four eyes to roll over for Trump's order to keep Huawei out of their 5G networks. The Kiwis and the Aussies caved immediately. I've long predicted that Canada will eventually follow suit, and I truly believed the UK would as well, especially after Boris became PM and Brexit becomes a reality. On the face of things, Boris needs some stuff from Trump, like a trade deal, that I would have thought ensures that he locks Huawei out of UK 5G.

So why does he appear to be giving Trump the finger?

I've always been of the belief that the Huawei ban is more about commerce than it is about security. The security claims, that Huawei will hand over all the secrets of the West to the Communist Party of China, seems dubious at best. In the real world of cyber-espionage, all the major players will infiltrate each others 5G networks, regardless of where the hardware is sourced. Huawei is widely regarded as being a generation ahead of Western technology. A ban would secure market share for Western companies.

Note what Boris has done. He's not banned Huawei outright, but he's capped their market share at 35%. I'm guessing there was some back and forth between Boris and Donny J, and that Trump signalled he could live with this deal before Boris made the announcement.

What's in this for BoJo? He just "defied" Trump. That's got to count for something in the polling numbers.


This has ramifications for Canada. If Trudeau follows Boris, and instead of an outright ban on Huawei imposes a market cap, he wins in at least two ways. Firstly, it gives him a chance to pose as something other than a Trump toady. That's a political win for him.

Secondly, it could open up a path to unwinding the Meng Wanzhou logjam. That would be an even bigger political win.

The think tank here at Falling Downs used to predict with 99% certainty that Canada would institute a full ban on Huawei. Now the odds are we'll take the opening Boris just gave us.

Censorship by omission

Gary Mason has a scary op-ed on A5 of today's Globe on Canada's troubles with China.

To hear Mason tell the tale, little rule-of-law Canada was diligently following the rule of law when Uncle Sam sent over an extradition request for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. Being the rule-of-law nebbishes that we are, we of course immediately acquiesced to the American request, because... well, rule of law, don't ya know!

So now we're being bullied by the cowardly Chinese, who bully us because they fear the actual real bully in the schoolyard, Uncle Sam.

While Mason has a point about who the real bully is in this scenario, he says not a word about the foundational issue behind this controversy, ie the alleged crimes committed by Meng. According to Washington's interpretation of "rule of law," they get to make up laws unilaterally and can then prosecute anyone on the planet for violating them. In this case, they claim that Meng's employer, a Chinese company, violated US law by doing business with Iran, contrary to US sanctions.

This is an aspect of the case seldom mentioned in the Globe and Mail's many stories on the matter; the legality and morality of the American sanctions on Iran. It is blithely assumed that it's 100% hunky-dory for the Trump regime to make stuff up and expect the rest of the world to cave to its demands, and watch out if they don't!

Folks who fail to fall in line are at risk of being apprehended at a Canadian airport, because in Canada, we're all about the rule of law.

Bring back Baird!

A country's foreign minister is the most high-profile personality to represent their nation on the world stage, after the prime minister or president. That's why you want somebody in the role who brings a little zenf to the table.

I thought Bullshittin' John Baird managed that in spades. I didn't agree with him very often but he was impossible to ignore. He was also a breath of fresh air among the stodgy band of fundamentalist Christians Harper surrounded himself with. It was sad to see him walk away from politics when he announced that he was transitioning to the private sector for the "stuff-my-pockets" phase of his career.

There can't be a lot of Canadians who could name the two FMs we had between Baird and Chrystia. Those guys had serious zenf deficits.

Then Chrystia. You always got the sense that she was more about promoting her personal brand and ingratiating herself with the Trump administration. Sometimes these two goals worked at cross-purposes. It's tough to pretend you're tough on Saudi's human rights record while simultaneously selling them military tools that enable them to further oppress dissent.

In practical terms she wasn't much of a FM. Where are the wins? Venezuela? Ukraine? But generally speaking the media gave her a pass for a record that had far more errors than home runs.

Now we've got another dullard in the job who looks like he's going to advance Canada's role in the world by sucking up to Washington. Check out this story at CBC. That's got a bit of a huffy tone, eh? You almost figure maybe this guy is gonna bring the zenf!

But check out the sub-head; "Ottawa is the only one qualified to set Canada's foreign policy, says Francois-Philippe Champagne." He's responding to some snippy comments made by China's new ambassador to Canada on the topic of the two Michaels. Our latest laughable strategy is to prevail on Trump (that is, beg him) to intervene on our behalf.

Because, as you know, we're all about the rule of law, just like the Americans! They sent us a warrant to arrest Meng Wanzhou, and we're either about rule of law or we're not, so we had no choice but to do the right thing, the thing the Americans demanded we do, and if the Americans demanded it, it was obviously right...

As is typical in Canadian reporting on the matter, Elise von Scheel neglects to provide the context for Wanzhou's arrest. The Chinese national was allegedly in violation of some unilateral sanctions the US has arbitrarily and illegally imposed on Iran.


That's what we're talking about when we talk about "rule of law;" going along with illegal sanctions the Americans made up to bully Iran. How is it America's job to decide who China can or cannot do business with?

Canada scared silly over status in "Five Eyes" club

Who are the "Five Eyes?"

The Five Eyes are the USA and four other nations, who, not to put too fine a point on it, are Uncle Sam's bestest besties.

Yup, we're in Uncle Sam's extra-special bumboy club!

Sure enough, Trump's national security adviser Robert O'Brien showed up at the Halifax International Security Forum to give Canada a stern warning that we could get kicked out of the extra-special bumboy club if we incorporate Huawei technology in our 5G infrastructure.

As you will recall, the incarceration of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was one of the triumphs of Chrystia Freeland's tenure as FM. Thousands of Canadian canola growers remain grateful for her efforts.

As far as this Canadian is concerned, the sooner we get kicked out of the Five Eyes club, the better. It's long past time to walk away from our role as Washington's "special" friend. Let's just be a normal independent sovereign nation instead.


Here's what bothers me a lot more about our 5G roll-out than whether or not Huawei is part of it. Where is the discussion about the health implications of 5G technology? Apparently, 5G is way more efficacious in growing brain tumours in lab rats than 4G.

What I've noticed over the past few months is that it's become much easier to find stories about how that's a "conspiracy theory," and much harder to find rational debate about what the actual health implications might be.

I'm guessing that's because the tech giants who are pushing 5G are the same tech giants who have taken it upon themselves to stamp out "fake news," and certainly anything that could impede their profitability going forward would be stamped out.


Where is the debate around 5G?

Getting tough on China

The Globe and Mail has another editorial on view today castigating PM Fluffy for not "getting tough" on China.

The China-bashing in the pages of the Globe has ramped up significantly since the arrest of Meng Wanzhou at the behest of Washington. China retaliated with the detention of two Canadians, an act of "political hostage-taking," and cancelling contracts for some Canadian agricultural products. The editorial provides a dubious compare-and-contrast between the US and China.

China, we learn, is "an amoral authoritarian prison state that is entirely detached from the rule of law," whereas the US, in spite of Trump, "...largely follows the rules, and it has independent courts where complaints can be heard."

Like I said, dubious. But it gets better; "China... has no compunction about hurting smaller countries that displease it."

Huh? You mean countries like Afghanistan? Iraq? Syria? Libya? Venezuela?... Oh wait; it wasn't China hurting those countries, was it?

If we were operating in the realm of reality, the Globe and Mail would be forced to concede that the list of smaller countries hurt, if not outright destroyed, by the US, is exponentially longer than the list of counties hurt by China.

Alas, we are not in the realm of reality, we're in propaganda land.

Meng Wanzhou's original sin was that her employer allegedly broke sanctions the US unilaterally imposed on Iran. Rule-of-law America is under the impression that it alone has the right to dictate to other countries who they can and cannot trade with. This is flat out bullying and a breach of international law, but the US gets away with it because everyone can see what happens to smaller countries that displease it, and therefore very few countries dare to defy American dictats.

The argument that Canada had no choice but to arrest Wanzhou is nonsense, and every diplomat and former diplomat and every reasonably well-read Canadian fully gets this. The Trudeau government had any number of options to avoid getting stuck in the middle of a US-China spat. The choice they made had nothing to do with the rule of law, and everything to do with toadying to Trump. That was a poor decision made by an inept government.

Justin's PR team has been very busy clearing the decks of unpleasant facts before the upcoming election. They're still hoping the SNC thing goes away. The Norman prosecution has disappeared. A number of controversial files have been deferred till after the election. Yes, it would be very lovely for the Liberals if the two Michaels could be home by the time we cast our ballots...


Both the Globe and Mail and Andrew Scheer think our best bet to resolve this stand-off is to align ourselves yet more closely with the US.

That will prove an enormously short-sighted and self-defeating strategy in the long term.

Chinese bullying; return of the Yellow Peril

There's certainly a lot of hand-wringing over Chinese bullying these days. It was on the front page of the Globe today. It was in Campbell Clark's column. It was mentioned three times in letters to the editor. Obviously somebody at the national newspaper of record is working very hard to get the reading public onboard with all this fear-mongering.

The gist of the bullying charges is simple enough. After we received that arrest request for Meng Wanzhou from Washington, we studied our values and our rules and our laws for about five minutes before concluding that our only conceivable way forward was to immediately capitulate to Washington's demand.

So what do those commies do? They pop a couple of innocent Canadians in the slammer on trumped up espionage charges and declare war on our canola exports!

Those impertinent yellow bastards! That's a textbook case of an evil dictatorship BULLYING a vibrant democracy that's just peaceably going about its business in a lawful and orderly way. At least that's the way Chrystia and Justin like to spin the story.

But let's go back to Ms. Wanzhou for a moment. What is the alleged crime for which we arrested her? Her company allegedly violated some sanctions that the US unilaterally imposed on Iran. Sanctions are something that the world's only super-power uses as a matter of course against nations who get too uppity, like Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran, among others.

Who is the bully in this scenario?

And what is the way forward for Canada? According to Justin and Chrystia, our way forward is to plead with the likes of Pompeo and Trump to support us in "our" squabble with the government of China.

We wouldn't have a squabble with China if we hadn't jumped when the bully snapped his fingers last December. Now we're sucking up to the bully some more in hopes that our past kowtowing got us enough brownie points to get the canola moving and those Canadian innocents home.

Truly pathetic.

Canadian political establishment alarmed by Trudeau incompetence

Interesting front pager in the Globe today about Jean Chretien inserting himself into the China file. There seems to be deep bipartisan support for someone, anyone, to get this thing unstuck.

What was new to me was that our justice minister has the authority to overrule the extradition process. I don't recall reading that in previous stories about our Huawei adventure. What I heard instead was a lot of gibberish about "rule of law" etc. What I see is feckless toadying to the Trump gang.

Bearing in mind that Meng Wanzhou's original sin was violating America's unilateral and illegal Iran sanctions, her arrest was an outrage from the beginning. If the justice minister has had the authority to free her, why hasn't it happened? These are reasonable questions for anyone remotely capable of standing up to US bully tactics.

Instead, we've had six months of slipping and sliding and dodging the issue on the part of our PM and his laughably inept Foreign Minister. They do great work grandstanding in the media, orchestrating photo-ops, and spewing platitudes.


But what's getting done?

Canada urged to get tough with China

Colin Robertson has an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail today informing us that China's been bullying us, and it's high time that Ottawa muscle up.

That's the kind of militaristic malarkey one would expect from a "vice-president and fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute." CGAI, a registered Canadian "charity," is essentially a lobby group funded by the US defense industry. It works tirelessly to convince whichever party is in power that Canada is bedevilled by existential threats, meaning Russia and China, and our very sovereignty is at risk if we don't throw gobs of money to the US armaments industry.

To convince the party in power to indulge such foolishness, it helps to get the public onside, and that's where Canada's newspaper of record comes in. Its role is to provide a platform for the kind of confrontational propaganda we see today. A casual perusal of the list of "fellows" at CGAI shows that Canada's elite opinion-shapers are already convinced of the righteousness of their scare-mongering, but it never hurts to get the rabble on board.

What Robertson wants the rabble to get riled up about today is the ongoing Meng Wanzhou hostage taking. That was a Canadian first strike. China retaliated by taking two citizens and our canola producers hostage. That's where things stand, and that's where they'll stay stuck, at least till Mr. Trudeau mans up and decides we're gonna fight back!

Robertson invokes the "rule of law" a couple of times in the course of his article. This mysterious phenomenon is frequently trotted out by the apostles of American Exceptionalism and their acolytes in the me-too nations, sometimes called the "Five Eyes." Contrary to what you might think if you took the term literally, abiding by the "rule of law" in no way precludes the Nations of Virtue running roughshod over international law as we favour recalcitrant countries with crippling economic sanctions, regime change operations, and when all else fails, bomb lesser civilisations back to the stone age.

Robertson carefully avoids any mention of Meng Wanzhou's original crime; allegations that her employer, Huawei, violated US sanctions against Iran. Would the rule-of-law fetishists please explain by what rules of which laws it is America's right to dictate to the world who is permitted to do business with whom?

The long and the short of the Huawei debacle is that PM Fluffy, in his virtue-signalling meanderings through the meadows of international relations, managed to step in a particularly pungent cow-pie. Now he's got shit on his colourful socks and doesn't know what to do.

He doesn't need to get tougher.

He needs to get smarter.

Trudeau's "new politics" looks like the same old slime

So how are things looking for PM Sunny Daze' sunny ways, my friends?

Me and the Farm Manager spent five hours in the car today, to take in Horst Packull's funeral. We had the state broadcaster on most of the way. We learned that Canada is marshalling some top scientists to explain to the Chinese that there's really nothing wrong with our canola or our soybeans.

Well, that's nice, but I think most Canadians are probably smart enough to get that our problems in the China market have nothing to do with canola or soybeans, so why bother trotting out such a misleading story? China's ban on Canadian soy product and canola has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with politics.

Indeed, most Canadians fully understand that our current difficulties stem from our arrest, at Uncle Sam's behest, of Meng Wanzhou. Her crime? The company she works for has allegedly violated US sanctions against Iran.

To consider that a crime, one has to buy the argument that the US has a right to unilaterally dictate to other nations, allegedly sovereign states, who they can and cannot do business with. These Iran sanctions do not originate with the UN or any other international body. In fact, they originate in that country whose name we dare not speak.

Be that as it may, you can't do business with Iran because Uncle Sam says so.

Period.

PM Fluffy and his government obviously buy in.

But here's the thing. Anyone with a first year poly-sci grasp of geopolitics could pay lip service to the US sanctions while still avoiding a showdown with China. After receiving the arrest request from Washington, Canada had any number of options in terms of quietly signalling Huawei that travel plans had best take this contingency into consideration. That's what would have happened under Harper, or Chretien, or Mulroney.

That's just big-boy politics.

What Justin's social justice warriors are doing is virtue-signalling their moral superiority over Trump in the foreground, while furiously working to appease Trump behind the scenes, and the Canadian public is catching on.

Trudeau came to office promising a whole new way of doing politics.  And his government has certainly taken virtue-signalling to new heights. He's got a "feminist" government, don't you know! And nosiree, we won't be kow-towing to Mr. Trump! In fact, we welcome the world's huddled masses even while the Orange Ogre is banning Muslims!

The reason Canadians are in jail in China, and our agriculture products are no longer welcome there, is because the Chinese are calling Trudeau's virtue-signalling bullshit.

They're telling us that kow-towing to Mr. Trump has a cost.

Who knew?

Obviously, neither Justin nor his completely in-over-her-head Minister of Foreign Affairs could see this coming. We haven't even had an ambassador in China since January, because the highly respected John McCallum had to be fired, because he did see it coming. The decision to fire McCallum was a victory of virtue-signalling over common sense.

Thanks to the SNC scandal, we've recently been treated to a peek behind the scenes in the Sunny Ways government, and it ain't pretty. Seems the government that strictly observes the "rule of law" on the Huawei file has no problems elbowing the rule of law aside to do some bare-knuckle politicking on behalf of SNC.

Seems the "feminist" PM expects his female cabinet ministers to obey orders.

Seems the Prime Minister of Native Reconciliation doesn't have any qualms about putting the boots to a Native woman who calls him on his shilling for a corporate scofflaw.


Seems to me that politics in the age of PM Sunny Daze are as slimy as they've ever been.

The Globe and Mail as propaganda organ

The Globe and Mail brain trust deserve a smidgen of credit for their smidgenly attempt to inject a little balance into their coverage of the Huawei affair; a single opinion piece by Michael Byers in which he correctly concludes that this imbroglio was entirely avoidable, and is primarily the result of the staggering ineptitude of the Trudeau-Freeland team.

Reportorial balance dispensed with, we are elsewhere in today's paper treated to:

• a half page news story on A3 informing us that the US vows to fight for the Canadians detained in China in the wake of the Meng Wanzhou arrest
• two thirds of page O2 given to long-time China critic and cheerleader for American exceptionalism Brahma Chellaney, who implores us to stand firm against Chinese bullying
• the lead editorial slagging China and celebrating our close relationship with the US
• seven of eight letters to the editor on the topic being stridently anti-Chinese.

Yes, China is a bully, whereas the US, in the words of Mike Pompeo, tirelessly lobbies for "...every citizen unlawfully detained around the world..."

That's a head-spinning bit of sophistry, that is. Every citizen of the world unless they happen to be unlawfully detained in Gitmo, or in prisons in al-Sisi's Egypt, in Israel, in Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, or even in Incarceration Nation itself.

Yes, aside from all those and many more, the US remains the shining city on a hill, tirelessly advocating for the downtrodden and oppressed, at least in that handful of countries reluctant to take direction from Washington.

As Canada's national newspaper of record, I'd like to see the Globe and Mail go a little further in promoting an independent foreign policy for Canada, and rein in the glaringly obvious toadying to American interests.

Another sterling day for democracy!

Democracy is alive and well in the USA!

Did you see the eye-gouging hair-pulling showdown between billionaire-puppets Trump, Schumer, and Pelosi? Boo-ya!...


What a farce!

Meanwhile, north of the 49th, we may not be that democratic, but by golly, are we ever sticklers for the rule of law! After a three-day bail hearing Meng Wanzhou get's sprung on $10,000,000 bail! Any number of seasoned US war criminals (Kissinger, Clinton, Bush) can waltz in and out of here with no worries, but hot damn, if'n yer Daddy's company done broke some US sanctions on Iran, we suddenly become hogtied by this thing called the "rule of law."

Yup, that's Canuckistan... we're not fancy, but we have the rule of law.


Ask black folks in Toronto about our rule of law... you know, those Canadians twenty times more likely to be shot by a cop than the white ones.

Now that's gotta be an epic PR fail for the self-righteous politically correct twats in Ottawa!