It's time to get tough on China, Justin
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Summary
Justin Trudeau is really against the ropes on Lavscam right now. Lots of calls for him to apologize. And you would think that now is a time when he would really want to turn the page. Do something different. Change people s focus.
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Justin Trudeau is really against the ropes on Lavscam right now. Lots of calls for him to
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apologize. And you would think that now is a time when he would really want to turn the page. Do
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something different. Change people's focus. Well, I'm not one for doing liberal political strategy
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to help Justin Trudeau do better in the polls, but I have an idea for him for how he can make things
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better with Lavscam, or at least get people to stop talking about it, and simultaneously do something
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that would be genuinely good for the country. And it involves Hong Kong. I'll explain. Right now,
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China is very distracted. They're dealing with the troubling Hong Kong issue where they're not sure
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what's going on with Hong Kong. They want to, of course, make Hong Kong and Taiwan and other
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countries become more like them, but Hong Kong will have none of it. Now, China has amassed
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troops and military vehicles along the Shenzhen border, and there are very serious worries that
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coming up soon they may do something comparable to a second Tiananmen Square. That in itself is a big
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problem, and we want Justin Trudeau, Christy Freeland, and Donald Trump, and Boris Johnson, and everyone
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else to stand up for liberty, freedom, the rule of law, and democracy in Hong Kong. But there's something
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else at play here that China is pretty vulnerable right now, a very powerful country, an authoritarian
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regime. They're rarely in a position like this where the world is watching, and they're on the defensive.
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They don't necessarily know what to do. Now is the perfect ideal time for Justin Trudeau to finally get
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tough on China. Now would be the best time to ban Huawei from our 5G grid. It would be the best time
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to file those World Trade Organization complaints against China, and do a myriad of the other things
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that the various experts and academics and former diplomats have been calling on Trudeau to do. Now,
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I obviously don't want Lab Scam to be distracting. I've written and broadcast and spoken already about how
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this is a major problem, and we need more action on this. But if you're going to play these political
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games, you would think now would be a time to do it. I mean, even if there was no Lab Scam, I would say
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now is the time to strike against China. But you'd think that Justin Trudeau would really actually want
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to take this opportunity right now. Do the right thing on the China file, on the Hong Kong file. Stand up.
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Make some statements in defense of Hong Kong. Do things like ban Huawei to tell China that they are not
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going to push us to become more like them. And at the same time, well, he can get us talking about
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Lab Scam just a little bit less. That's my advice to the Prime Minister, my one time this year where