Juno News - September 14, 2019


China should be an election issue


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

172.93799

Word Count

766

Sentence Count

1

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

In this episode, I discuss the need to make China an election issue in Canada, and why it is so important to have a strong relationship with China. I also talk about the recent arrest of a senior official in the Canadian intelligence community, and the growing concerns about Chinese influence in Canada.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 there's a lot of big issues that have surfaced in recent years during the
00:00:14.820 Justin Trudeau government that really deserve to be discussed during this
00:00:18.060 election the lab scam issue for sure dealing with foreign affairs vis-a-vis
00:00:22.680 the India trip things with Saudi Arabia yes they really matter but there's one
00:00:27.180 issue that really matters when it comes to building a prosperous and secure
00:00:32.300 future for Canada not just for the next couple years for the next term but really
00:00:36.900 for decades to come and that is Canada's relationship with China so many
00:00:42.480 different issues bubbling on the floor right now whether it's the Huawei issue
00:00:45.720 or ones that are being discussed quite recently during the first debate Andrew
00:00:49.560 Scheer brought up multiple times the need to withdraw from the Asian investment
00:00:53.460 infrastructure bank and I imagine a lot of Canadians watching that probably
00:00:56.820 thought what exactly is he talking about what is this thing well this is
00:01:00.000 something China created and we signed on to just a couple years ago under the
00:01:03.780 Trudeau government that is basically China's version of the World Bank what
00:01:08.280 they want to do is create a whole bunch of these large institutions that
00:01:12.360 effectively replace the institutions that were created by the West immediately
00:01:17.160 following World War two things like the IMF the World Bank even the United
00:01:21.060 Nations I imagine we'll hear a pitch from China in the coming years to create some
00:01:24.640 new version of that or for them to bring that body itself more greatly under their
00:01:29.300 sway we need to get out from under this bank because this is basically just China
00:01:34.180 trying to say no let's more head in this direction let's make global finance be
00:01:39.080 dominated by China by us and not by the US and other countries that Canada is
00:01:44.120 more closely connected to so we've got to get out of this bank also at the time of me
00:01:49.320 making this recording news is only just broken that a senior RCMP director
00:01:54.000 general involved in intelligence issues has been arrested and charged related to
00:01:59.220 espionage matters now right now there's not too much we know about the details of
00:02:03.320 this individual but we do know that he has an academic specialty in East Asia
00:02:08.340 matters so perhaps there's something involving China here in this story and
00:02:12.900 even if it's not specifically related to China we know for sure that there have
00:02:17.400 been a lot of questions about Chinese espionage misinformation and influence
00:02:22.140 in Canada for years it's something that has not been discussed as much as it
00:02:27.300 should and we need to discuss it now we saw just recently during the Hong Kong
00:02:32.280 protests that there were people loudly and proudly speaking about their support
00:02:37.160 for the Chinese Communist Party in the streets of Toronto and other major cities in
00:02:42.700 this country people who counter protested pro-democracy protests I mean that's really
00:02:48.040 something when you stop to think about it there's a pro-democracy protest in Canada not
00:02:53.140 that rare and then people who counter protest that I mean it boggles the mind we also had at the
00:03:00.380 Montreal Pride Parade pro-China elements disrupting a pro-Hong Kong pro-democracy LGBT
00:03:07.700 contingent at that Montreal Pride and they were so disrespectful that they hounded people there and
00:03:13.480 even get this pride parades pretty much all of them do a minute of silence to honor people who have
00:03:19.300 recently died of AIDS they sung the communist anthem during that minute of silence so this is not even
00:03:27.000 something that's all that clandestine happening this stuff is sometimes happening quite openly in our face
00:03:33.000 now I've said many times that Canada 150 the other year it was a great celebration looking back on our
00:03:38.660 history and how great our country is the one thing we didn't do enough was talk about the next 150
00:03:44.140 how do we even get to Canada 300 because when you look at the things that China is doing basically
00:03:50.600 trying to swallow up other countries like Hong Kong and Taiwan or trying to bring other countries such as
00:03:56.160 in Africa and in Eastern Europe under their sway and beholden to them in many ways you realize that
00:04:02.380 Canada as a nation is actually at risk in a whole bunch of issues but definitely
00:04:08.100 when it comes to our relationship with China intelligence Arctic sovereignty national resources so much so
00:04:15.320 so Andrew Scheer was good to be bringing up the Asian Investment Infrastructure Bank in the debates
00:04:20.400 but he could do more we could all do more to make China an election issue