Unctuous Trucking to Beijing

"We did speak about supply chain integrity. That was a core message that I conveyed to our Chinese counterparts, to say that, obviously Canada puts a lot of importance on [this] and that our bilateral trade [needs] to be conducted in accordance with international standards."

"This is a point that I've made very clearly to different counterparts that we've met here in China during our visit."

"We are focused and pragmatic in how we want to engage."

"It was very clear where we could trade when the interests of Canada and China would align."

Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne

 

"There is [the] existence of child labour and forced labour around the world."

"[There are] parts of China that are higher risk [for the practices]."

Prime Minister Mark Carney

From left to right: People's Bank of China Deputy Governor Xuan Changneng, People's Bank of China Governor Pan Gongsheng, Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem and Canada's ambassador to China Jennifer May pose for a photo together in Beijing on Apr. 3, 2026. (Lisa Xing/CBC)

 

Canada's Liberal government led now by Mark Carney has carried on the practices of its immediate-predecessor government -- and for that matter the more distant Liberal government of former PM Jean Chretien -- in favouring trade with a human-rights-abusing nation whose territorial ambitions have swallowed whole the sovereignty of adjacent countries like Tibet, East Turkistan and Xianjiang, incorporating them militarily into a 'greater' China that continues to eye an opportunity to capture Taiwan into its orbit.

 

There was unanimous support in the House of Commons to view Beijing's ongoing persecution of its Uyghur population as a cultural genocide. The Chinese Communist Party is known to use child labour and forced labour in its vast labour market as it swiftly rose as the world's consumer-product manufacturer whose cheap labour put factory manufacturing out of business in many other global economies unable to compete with China, enabling it to sweep the world production market with a huge global consumer base.

 

China's cyber-interference with other countries' government and trade secrets is well known, as is its broad interference in other countries' social, manufacturing and political cultures. Its interference in Canada's political process has been well documented, yet this Liberal government insists it can do business with a country that views trade from a completely one-sided perspective. The Liberal government's recent embrace of a Chinese expatriate Chinese-Canadian Member of Parliament, Michael Ma, despite all indications that he is a Beijing agent demonstrates the depth of corruption it is capable of.

At a parliamentary committee on Thursday, Liberal MP Michael Ma asked Margaret McCuaig-Johnston of the China Strategic Risks Institute if she has personally witnessed forced labour in China. 'I work closely with Human Rights Watch where researchers did witness it,' McCuaig-Johnston said. CBC

 

First PM Carney visited China to fawn on its leadership and handily 'forget' Beijing's penchant for hostage-diplomacy that saw two Canadians kidnapped in China, and held for three years charged with bogus issues under the state's secret issues law. Chinese scientists involved in working as trusted allies in Winnipeg's high security Neational Microbiology Lab, unlawfully sent pathology samples to China's military-linked biology labs, until an investigation revealed the extent of their breach of  trust and they were removed from the lab.

 

Xiangguo Qiu wears a biocontainment suit while working in the containment lab at the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg. Qiu, her biologist husband Keding Cheng, and her students were escorted out of the NML in July 2019. Qiu and Cheng were fired in January 2021. The RCMP is still investigating a possible 'policy breach' reported by the Public Health Agency of Canada. (CBC)

 

Beijing's pilfering of Canadian market processes and innovations are legendary. Including the infamous case of Nortel Networks, once a giant in telecommunications, but brought to its knees by extensive cyber-espionage that led to the rise of Huawei on the ashes of Nortel's innovations. All of these assaults on Canadian industry, included interference in Canadian culture, academia and governments at all levels. Yet all is forgiven, and Canada is eager for more of the same as long as it is given access to the huge consumer base of China's immense population.

 

This current government is on a path that does not converge from one set by its predecessor Trudeau government that spoke glowingly of a 'post-national' Canada, and whose immigration/refugee/migrant policy flooded Canada with a population of those reflecting a heritage, culture and religious ideology at sharp odds with Canadian values, culture, social system, governance and justice. The DEI-infused, Critical Race Theory of the Trudeau government continues apace with the Carney government.

 

Vast expenditures of Canadian treasury have gone into projects of no value to the Canada that most citizens recall in the near-distant past. The country's deficit continues to grow as does its debt, to the point where there is little hope of economic retreat from this government's excesses that match its abject posturing in Beijing chasing a free trade dream that will never materialize, and in the process damning Canada to a relationship with a nation without scruples in controlling other countries as it claws its way toward global dominance. 

 

He Lifeng, vice-premier of the People's Republic of China (left) shakes hands with Canada's Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne during a bilateral meeting in Beijing on April 3, 2026. (Lisa Xing/CBC)