Canada Cozying Up To China-- What Could Go Wrong?

 

During a recent visit to China, Canadian Prime Minister Mark “Ah So” Carney declared a “new world order” and effusively praised the “leadership of President Xi Jinping.” Carney, flanked by other Canadian politicians, extolled the recent “progress” Canada has made in its “partnership” with China. Anita Anand, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated: “it is necessary for us [Canada] to diversify our trading partners, and to grow non-U. S. trade by at least 50 percent over the next 10 years.”

End result? China will effectively “own” Canada within the next 10 years. China doesn’t enter into agreements that don’t greatly benefit China-- and greatly diminish the other party or parties to the agreement, at least in the long run. Whether it be the Belt and Road initiative, the control of ports, the purchasing of farmland, or the stranglehold it has on goods vital to its “partners,” China is ironically far more laser-focused on what’s best for China than the U.S. is on what’s best for the U.S. The U.S. has historically spent gajillions of dollars to aid other nations. China spends much of its money to sucker other nations into letting China call the shots. So to speak.

The further the Great White North separates from the United States, the closer its ties with China, the worse it will be for Canada and Canadians. Period. The second largest nation on Earth may well become the planet’s largest third-world country. Canada may think it is expanding its trading options and gaining a “strategic partner” in everything “from energy to agriculture, to people-to-people ties, multilateralism, to issues on security,” as Carney noted. The truth is that, perhaps unwittingly, it is offering to be China’s favorite bitch. But hey, maybe the country obsessed with offering medical assistance in dying (MAID) options to its citizens will feel a kinship with one that harvests organs from demographic groups it doesn’t value.

In keeping with the spirit of our past camaraderie, I would like to offer Canada an economy-sized virtual fortune cookie: “You may soon experience a major setback. Confucious say, ‘Don’t bite the hand that feeds you, nor the one that protects you.’” Eh?