Canada awakes from World Series fever dream

For a few short but glorious weeks the hopes of this great nation were fully invested in a couple dozen (mostly) American millionaires who get paid to play baseball. That's over now. Time to snap out of the trance. Back to reality! I see where our Banker-in-charge paid a visit to Chairman Xi to extend an olive branch of sorts. Sorry about that Two Michaels stuff... let's get the Canada-China relationship back on track! Fair enough. Makes sense now that we're desperate to expand our trade relationships beyond the USA. Remember, it was Ottawa's toadying to US dictats that derailed the Canada-China relationship to begin with. A couple of days after the photo-op with Xi, Carney sends his Defence Minister to Manila to sign a defence deal with the government of Bongbong Marcos, so we can help Phillipines "deter Chinese aggression." How stupid is that? In the first place, whoever came up with that moronic headline should be aware that the US has nine military bases in the Phillipines. Even a complete idiot should be able to figure out that if those nine US bases fail to deter Chinese aggression, a defence deal with Canada is utterly pointless. So why bother? I'll tell you why. Because even as our leaders loudly proclaim their defiance of Trump, they don't want to piss him off too much. That leads to embarrassments like having to apologize to Trump for that 75 million TV ad Doug Ford invested our tax dollars in. Hence the need to signal our continued allegience to the American Empire with empty gestures like the Phillipines deal.

When will Canada stand up against US meddling in our democracy?

There’s been a lot of noise here in the Great White North about foreign meddling in our democracy. Specifically, it’s been the Yellow Peril and the towel-heads in India that have attracted infinite opprobrium both on our national propaganda network, the CBC, and in the pages of our putative “newspaper of record,” the Globe & Mail. A truly shocking tidbit came out today; there are MPs sitting in parliament today who have connived with foreign governments, ie India and China, to subvert our democracy! What to do!? Hmm… In the first place, calm down and get a grip. What’s behind our fear of India and China? Our American allies (some would say “overlords”) have been steering our China policy for some time. Remember the “Two Michaels?” They were in jail in retaliation for Canada jailing a prominent Chinese business executive at the behest of the US government. For over two years the Two Michaels served as a cudgel to beat China with. China always claimed they were spies. Canada always protested they were innocent civilians ruthlessly abducted by the tyrannical Chines Communist Party. That fell apart when it came out one Michael was suing the other for ratting him out to his spymasters. Our diplomatic relationship with India has been severely strained since PM Fluffy did his dress-up tour in 2018, but it went down the toilet for good when our PM publicly claimed India was responsible for the murder of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. He made that statement on the strength of intelligence from our Washington ally, also known in Ottawa as “the boss.” American influence over Canadian policy continues unabated, and unchallenged by our legacy media. Hardly a day goes by without another example of US interference. Today CBC reports some American politicians are upset we’re not doing our part to prevent the Uyghur “genocide” because we’re not sufficiently diligent about protecting our supply chains. Why does the CBC assume we need to appease those American politicians? Why do we tolerate US meddling in our political affairs? This seems a far greater threat than the alleged political meddling of China and India.

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!