Juno News - Senator seeks ban on imports from Xinjiang, China

00:00:00.000 You're tuned in to The Andrew Lawton Show.

00:00:11.200 Welcome back to The Andrew Lawton Show.

00:00:13.740 I mentioned, of course, the World Health Organization

00:00:16.060 deciding to capitulate to China by skipping over the letter

00:00:20.080 Xi in the Greek alphabet when naming variants.

00:00:24.120 Well, we also had this funny story where the Simpsons

00:00:27.780 had an episode in which the Simpsons family went to Beijing

00:00:30.800 and they visited Tiananmen Square and saw,

00:00:33.620 as you can see on the screen there,

00:00:35.300 a sign that said nothing at all happened on that site in 1989.

00:00:41.800 And this episode conspicuously was absent

00:00:44.560 from the offerings on Disney Plus in Hong Kong.

00:00:48.760 So The Simpsons was announced,

00:00:50.280 and if you were skipping through all the episodes

00:00:52.080 from whatever season it was in 2005,

00:00:54.720 you'd say, oh, wow, I wonder what happens next.

00:00:56.480 I think it's that one where they go to China

00:00:57.960 and then the episode wouldn't be there.

00:01:01.100 And Disney Plus has decided that appeasing China 0.87

00:01:03.900 is more important than actually offering

00:01:06.620 the full slate of episodes from The Simpsons.

00:01:09.680 So I noted on Twitter that, you know,

00:01:11.980 what are the letters Xi and The Simpsons have in common?

00:01:15.260 Both have been censored to appease Chairman Xi

00:01:19.480 and the Chinese Politburo.

00:01:21.280 Now, I should say I'm not one of these

00:01:22.860 totally bi-Canadian people.

00:01:25.000 I think buying Canadian is great,

00:01:26.520 but what I mean by that is that I'm sympathetic

00:01:28.880 that not everyone can afford to buy Canadian-made things.

00:01:32.400 And I also realized that there are a lot of products

00:01:34.240 that simply aren't made in Canada

00:01:36.440 because we are, in general, an import economy

00:01:39.960 on a lot of the trinkets and gadgets

00:01:41.580 that people like to buy, that consumers like to buy.

00:01:45.140 But there's a difference between

00:01:46.980 not buying Canadian-made things

00:01:49.640 and buying Chinese-made things.

00:01:51.960 There are, you know, depending on who you ask,

00:01:53.460 194 other countries you could choose from.

00:01:56.700 So this is why I found it interesting to spotlight

00:01:59.180 this bill that was put forward in the Senate

00:02:01.520 by Senator Leo Houssakos, Bill C-204.

00:02:05.040 Now, this is not looking at just Chinese-made products.

00:02:08.080 It's identifying a problem that's very specific,

00:02:10.880 which is products in China made by forced labor,

00:02:14.180 specifically in the Xinjiang region,

00:02:16.680 where the genocide against the Uyghur Muslims

00:02:19.540 has taken place.

00:02:21.220 And what Senator Houssakos has proposed

00:02:23.120 is a bill that would ban the import

00:02:25.800 of anything made in this region.

00:02:28.200 Anything, regardless of whether it was made

00:02:30.500 by slave labor or not.

00:02:32.260 If it was from Xinjiang,

00:02:33.660 you cannot import it to Canada.

00:02:36.060 Now, it's important to note,

00:02:37.000 we do have a prohibition on products

00:02:39.300 made by forced labor,

00:02:40.780 but that is not something that it seems like

00:02:44.960 we've had tremendous success enforcing.

00:02:47.800 At least that's what all the reports

00:02:48.940 about CBSA's track record on this.

00:02:50.880 This has been a huge issue

00:02:52.260 and I want to talk about it with the Senator

00:02:53.660 who introduced this bill to bar all imports

00:02:56.640 from China's Xinjiang region,

00:02:58.980 Conservative Senator Leo Houssakos,

00:03:00.860 who joins me now.

00:03:01.940 Senator, good to talk to you again.

00:03:03.160 Thanks for coming on today.

00:03:04.700 Thank you for having me on.

00:03:06.180 Now, we already have, as I understand it,

00:03:08.680 a specific prohibition on goods

00:03:10.960 made with forced labor,

00:03:12.460 which is obviously one of the big challenges

00:03:15.140 in that region, in particular in China.

00:03:17.560 Why is this measure needed

00:03:19.480 on top of that, in your view?

00:03:21.360 Well, we do currently,

00:03:22.680 as you rightfully point out,

00:03:24.240 we do have in the law books

00:03:25.420 a lot of deal with this kind of issue

00:03:27.540 with slave labor.

00:03:28.520 Unfortunately, it hasn't worked.

00:03:30.460 We've seen over more than a year

00:03:32.160 now that the bill has been in the books

00:03:33.640 that CBSA and Customs Canada

00:03:35.820 has had a very hard time

00:03:37.640 making determinations

00:03:38.660 of what products are coming in

00:03:40.100 that have been manufactured

00:03:41.420 using slave labor.

00:03:43.920 And I think it's time

00:03:45.560 that Canada stops with the tokenisms.

00:03:47.760 And I think it's time

00:03:48.600 that the Trudeau government

00:03:49.500 gets its head out of the sand.

00:03:51.400 And we take steps and measures

00:03:53.300 against China for a variety of reasons.

00:03:55.780 China, as we know right now,

00:03:56.940 is the most egregious violator

00:03:58.680 of human rights around the world.

00:04:01.140 We know for a fact

00:04:02.640 that they have absolutely no respect

00:04:04.260 for human rights, democracy, freedom.

00:04:06.140 They're trampling on that freedom in Hong Kong.

00:04:09.000 They have no respect

00:04:09.820 for international rule of law.

00:04:11.420 We saw that how willingly they are

00:04:13.120 to engage in hostage diplomacy.

00:04:16.260 And ultimately, I want to reiterate

00:04:17.560 for the viewers

00:04:18.360 that at the end of the day,

00:04:20.040 the House of Commons

00:04:21.000 passed a motion

00:04:22.280 calling what's happening

00:04:23.480 to the Uyghur people

00:04:24.380 in Shanjing as a genocide.

00:04:26.320 The Senate of Canada

00:04:27.160 passed a motion

00:04:28.540 calling on the Trudeau government

00:04:29.880 to implement Magnitsky sanctions

00:04:32.100 against officials

00:04:33.100 in the Beijing regime.

00:04:35.280 And Trudeau continues

00:04:36.600 to refuse and drag his feet.

00:04:38.320 So I think S4,

00:04:40.420 which is the number

00:04:41.440 of my bill in the Senate,

00:04:43.060 is a bill that amends

00:04:44.500 the tariff act.

00:04:46.460 It makes it all encompassing.

00:04:48.320 Any product that's manufactured

00:04:50.060 or comes into Canada

00:04:51.640 through Shanjing

00:04:52.520 is going to be not acceptable,

00:04:55.280 will be turned around.

00:04:56.200 And it will be

00:04:56.940 an unequivocal message

00:04:58.240 that genocide and slave labour

00:05:00.740 will not be tolerated

00:05:02.360 by the Canadian people

00:05:03.620 and the Canadian government.

00:05:05.380 One of the challenges here,

00:05:07.000 and I'm sympathetic to companies

00:05:09.060 that want to do the right thing

00:05:10.600 but can't be entirely aware

00:05:12.880 of every stage

00:05:13.820 of their supply chain

00:05:14.820 when you get to subcontractors

00:05:16.360 and sub-subcontractors

00:05:17.780 and all of that.

00:05:18.840 So it strikes me

00:05:19.620 that your approach

00:05:20.420 would make it a lot easier

00:05:22.240 for it to be enforced,

00:05:23.340 both by CBSA,

00:05:24.500 but also for companies

00:05:26.180 that are doing business

00:05:27.020 with this part of the world.

00:05:28.640 100%.

00:05:29.240 Every single corporation

00:05:30.700 right now

00:05:31.280 that's doing business

00:05:32.200 in Shanjing,

00:05:33.220 they know full well

00:05:34.520 what's going on

00:05:35.560 to the Uyghur minority

00:05:36.600 in that region.

00:05:38.120 There's a genocide going on.

00:05:41.260 The Beijing regime

00:05:42.760 is completely intolerant

00:05:44.320 of all religious groups

00:05:45.840 in China.

00:05:47.600 And every group

00:05:48.900 and any corporation

00:05:50.100 that does business there,

00:05:51.180 we know full well

00:05:51.840 they're doing business

00:05:52.560 because they're putting profits

00:05:53.860 ahead of human rights.

00:05:55.060 And I've said this before

00:05:56.240 and I'll say it again.

00:05:57.420 There is nothing more fundamental

00:05:58.960 to Canadians

00:05:59.660 than democracy, freedom

00:06:01.580 and defense of human rights.

00:06:03.540 That's who we are.

00:06:04.460 That's our identity.

00:06:05.760 Every single Canadian

00:06:06.700 that's been drawn

00:06:07.500 to this country,

00:06:08.860 immigrants

00:06:09.180 and children of immigrants

00:06:10.420 and we are all here

00:06:12.380 either through immigration

00:06:13.520 or our children of immigrants,

00:06:16.600 we've come here

00:06:17.360 because of our values,

00:06:18.520 because of freedom,

00:06:19.620 because of our democracy,

00:06:20.720 because of human rights.

00:06:21.680 And if Canadians right now

00:06:23.320 aren't willing to defend them

00:06:24.580 in exchange for a few

00:06:26.020 cheaper products

00:06:26.820 or because some corporations

00:06:28.320 want to bypass

00:06:29.620 Canadian labor standards,

00:06:31.660 Canadian environmental standards,

00:06:33.700 intellectual property standards,

00:06:35.620 in order to make profits,

00:06:37.280 we should make it clear

00:06:38.220 that the day of reckoning

00:06:39.980 for China is now

00:06:41.120 and that we will not tolerate it.

00:06:43.020 And if China wants 0.73

00:06:43.780 to continue to benefit

00:06:44.860 from our wealthy

00:06:46.080 middle-class market,

00:06:47.340 they have to align themselves

00:06:49.180 to our rules,

00:06:50.300 our regulations

00:06:51.060 and our values.

00:06:53.320 Conservatives have always been

00:06:54.640 the party of free trade

00:06:56.020 and I know that free trade

00:06:57.360 in its truest sense

00:06:58.280 requires free actors

00:06:59.960 on both sides

00:07:00.960 of the transaction

00:07:01.720 but there are products

00:07:03.780 being made in China

00:07:05.040 that are not the products

00:07:06.380 of slave labor.

00:07:07.920 So why should those products

00:07:09.480 be closed off

00:07:10.240 to the Canadian market

00:07:11.200 if that's where a company

00:07:12.880 is getting its supplies from?

00:07:14.800 Well, my bill is

00:07:15.780 particularly zeroing in

00:07:17.660 on Xinjiang

00:07:18.280 because we know

00:07:19.080 there's a genocide

00:07:19.840 going on over there

00:07:21.080 but I've always said

00:07:22.380 in the past

00:07:22.880 we need to re-evaluate

00:07:24.000 all our trade relationship

00:07:25.300 with China

00:07:25.820 because at the end of the day

00:07:27.060 we see how they trample

00:07:28.540 on democracy in Hong Kong.

00:07:30.220 We see how they're belligerent

00:07:31.600 towards our friend

00:07:32.320 and ally in India,

00:07:34.140 how they're trampling

00:07:35.120 upon freedom in Taiwan.

00:07:38.080 It's a regime right now

00:07:39.440 that has absolutely shown

00:07:40.880 time and time again

00:07:42.000 their only value

00:07:43.640 is pursuit of profit

00:07:44.860 and with complete disregard

00:07:47.340 to the values of freedom

00:07:48.880 and human rights.

00:07:50.180 So I think again

00:07:51.760 the democratic world

00:07:53.260 and democracy funny enough

00:07:54.660 Andrew has never been

00:07:55.700 in a more precarious position

00:07:57.560 than it is in 2021

00:07:58.780 and in a lot of G7

00:08:01.160 and G20 countries

00:08:02.240 we take for granted

00:08:03.400 the fact that we have

00:08:04.800 certain freedoms

00:08:05.500 that come along

00:08:06.660 with our capitalist system

00:08:07.840 but capitalism

00:08:08.520 only genuinely works

00:08:10.120 when it's accompanied

00:08:10.780 by free enterprise

00:08:12.060 and you're absolutely right

00:08:13.780 conservatives were free traders

00:08:15.100 and I'm a free trader

00:08:16.060 but free trade has to be done

00:08:17.740 with a partner

00:08:18.620 where you have common values

00:08:19.940 you're aligned

00:08:20.900 in terms of your judicial system

00:08:22.580 your trading laws

00:08:25.100 your human rights approach

00:08:27.140 to human rights

00:08:27.860 labour laws

00:08:29.440 like I said earlier

00:08:30.220 environmental laws

00:08:31.200 intellectual property protection

00:08:33.060 these are all things

00:08:34.060 that the Chinese

00:08:35.340 communist regime disregards.

00:08:37.740 I know in the United States

00:08:39.540 there is an approach

00:08:40.520 where you have a reverse onus

00:08:42.160 in that if you can prove

00:08:43.380 that the products

00:08:44.520 you're importing

00:08:45.160 are not the products

00:08:46.440 of slave labour

00:08:47.160 now setting aside

00:08:48.060 the challenges

00:08:48.620 and proving a negative

00:08:49.520 then you'd be able

00:08:50.860 to skirt past a prohibition

00:08:52.840 why not carve an exemption

00:08:54.360 like that into your bill?

00:08:56.080 Because at the end of the day

00:08:57.460 it's just another loophole

00:08:59.100 that clever organisations

00:09:00.920 and corporations

00:09:02.000 in China

00:09:02.800 find a way to get around

00:09:04.060 we know what's going on

00:09:05.640 in Shenzhen

00:09:06.320 our parliament

00:09:07.240 has called that out

00:09:08.240 parliaments around the world

00:09:10.400 have called that genocide

00:09:11.480 what it is

00:09:12.300 and there are certain governments

00:09:13.740 that are always trying

00:09:14.660 to be cute by half

00:09:15.800 by allowing certain loopholes

00:09:17.820 in order to appease

00:09:18.900 certain corporations

00:09:20.120 and certain pursuits

00:09:21.160 of profit

00:09:21.680 like I said

00:09:23.060 it's for Canadians

00:09:24.760 that shouldn't be acceptable

00:09:25.800 it shouldn't be good enough

00:09:26.800 How do we get Canadians 0.81

00:09:29.380 and I think this is

00:09:30.260 Canadian business

00:09:30.980 and also Canadian consumers

00:09:32.580 off of this reliance

00:09:34.320 that we seem to have

00:09:35.340 on cheap Chinese made products

00:09:37.260 and I mean it's a challenge

00:09:38.800 because a lot of Canadians

00:09:39.920 who are themselves

00:09:40.780 dealing with economic hardship

00:09:42.220 will gravitate towards products

00:09:44.660 that are less expensive

00:09:45.640 the result is that we have

00:09:47.140 this self-fulfilling prophecy

00:09:49.000 of a reliance

00:09:49.820 on these cheap goods

00:09:50.640 in China

00:09:51.140 which as you've noted

00:09:52.180 do not have

00:09:53.380 a reliable supply chain

00:09:54.940 to them

00:09:55.420 Well there's a few things

00:09:56.940 we can do

00:09:57.540 number one

00:09:58.240 there's other developing

00:09:59.380 economic markets

00:10:00.320 in the world

00:10:00.820 that would love

00:10:01.500 to have some of the

00:10:02.500 lower paying jobs

00:10:04.260 that are currently

00:10:04.920 that are currently

00:10:06.620 the benefit

00:10:07.200 of the Chinese regime

00:10:09.060 and the Chinese economy

00:10:10.160 and I also believe

00:10:11.580 fundamentally

00:10:12.160 that our G7 countries

00:10:13.700 and G20 countries

00:10:14.680 and our democracies

00:10:15.420 around the world

00:10:16.100 have to find ways

00:10:17.420 to become more competitive

00:10:18.680 to cut through

00:10:19.340 bureaucratic red tape

00:10:21.280 to lower taxes

00:10:22.300 to start creating

00:10:24.340 manufacturing

00:10:25.240 and creating jobs

00:10:26.840 back in our countries 1.00

00:10:27.940 which is something

00:10:29.180 we haven't done

00:10:29.920 over the last 20 years

00:10:30.980 and of course

00:10:32.060 when we go back

00:10:34.480 to doing that

00:10:35.100 we'll inject action

00:10:36.360 into our economy

00:10:37.280 when we bring immigrants 1.00

00:10:39.340 to our countries

00:10:40.020 we'll give them jobs 0.96

00:10:41.200 there's many ways

00:10:43.120 to do it

00:10:43.640 but right now

00:10:44.240 we've become

00:10:44.860 very complacent

00:10:46.400 we've become

00:10:47.580 very reliant

00:10:48.480 on cheap products

00:10:49.740 that come in from China

00:10:50.720 it's one thing

00:10:51.320 about a product

00:10:52.400 being competitive

00:10:53.760 within a free market economy

00:10:55.240 it's a whole other thing

00:10:56.600 when you're using slave labor

00:10:58.000 and I don't think

00:10:59.700 in the 21st century

00:11:00.900 allowing any 0.94

00:11:02.460 economic system

00:11:04.440 any totalitarian regime

00:11:06.260 around the world

00:11:06.980 to use slavery

00:11:08.440 in 2021

00:11:09.420 it's unbelievable

00:11:11.300 that it's happening

00:11:12.280 in this day and age

00:11:13.520 and like I said

00:11:14.460 Canadians

00:11:14.900 and all of us

00:11:16.220 from the West

00:11:16.700 have to take our heads

00:11:18.020 out of the sand

00:11:18.740 and take a stand

00:11:19.920 and take a stand

00:11:20.660 with our wallets

00:11:22.080 when we go to the stores

00:11:23.060 and you're buying

00:11:23.680 your Nike product

00:11:24.620 or your H&M product

00:11:25.940 or you're buying

00:11:27.100 any clothing apparel

00:11:30.360 ask the questions

00:11:31.980 where is it from

00:11:32.780 who's made this

00:11:34.340 it takes only a few seconds

00:11:36.300 to get to the bottom

00:11:37.220 of this

00:11:37.600 but you're taking a stand

00:11:39.240 for humanity

00:11:39.840 when you do that

00:11:40.620 well and I should note here

00:11:42.180 the Canadian government

00:11:43.140 is not necessarily

00:11:44.480 immune from this problem

00:11:45.780 as I'm sure you

00:11:46.940 and those watching

00:11:48.100 are aware

00:11:48.600 Canadian government

00:11:49.680 chose Lululemon

00:11:50.720 as being the official

00:11:51.780 clothing supplier

00:11:52.720 for Team Canada

00:11:53.920 for the upcoming

00:11:54.540 Beijing Olympics

00:11:55.360 and just last week

00:11:56.660 the Globe and Mail

00:11:57.660 reported that

00:11:58.340 Lululemon

00:11:58.940 is on a watch list

00:12:00.520 for a brand

00:12:01.100 that could be using

00:12:01.920 products

00:12:02.400 specifically cotton

00:12:03.360 that was coming

00:12:04.400 from forced labour

00:12:05.380 so you're right

00:12:06.020 how insidious this is

00:12:07.420 in all of these

00:12:08.140 different areas

00:12:08.760 of enterprise

00:12:09.660 and you know

00:12:10.380 right back to Canada

00:12:11.280 look we have over the last

00:12:14.140 few decades

00:12:15.020 as a government

00:12:15.800 and as a people

00:12:16.660 because of our reliance

00:12:18.680 on cheap goods

00:12:19.480 we've accepted

00:12:20.340 and tolerated

00:12:21.220 and turned a blind eye

00:12:22.960 to behaviour

00:12:24.000 that is just the most

00:12:25.620 egregious

00:12:26.200 and inexcusable

00:12:27.180 and we have to start

00:12:29.320 asking ourselves

00:12:30.160 the three or four percent

00:12:31.720 of our trading

00:12:33.060 activity with China

00:12:34.960 is it worth really

00:12:36.380 compromising our values

00:12:38.480 and who we are

00:12:39.140 as a people

00:12:39.740 you know

00:12:40.900 Canadians

00:12:41.560 hundreds of thousands

00:12:43.320 gave up their lives

00:12:44.540 in a successive number

00:12:46.320 of wars

00:12:46.920 fighting for democracy

00:12:48.300 and freedom

00:12:48.900 people that came

00:12:50.460 to this country

00:12:51.120 in the 40s

00:12:51.820 and 50s

00:12:52.380 and 60s

00:12:52.940 and to this date

00:12:53.780 they're fleeing

00:12:54.380 oppression

00:12:55.460 and hardships

00:12:56.580 around the world

00:12:57.500 and authoritarian regimes

00:12:59.220 and they're coming

00:12:59.860 to Canada

00:13:00.380 and they embrace

00:13:01.100 our passport

00:13:01.780 and flag

00:13:02.460 and our way

00:13:03.280 of life

00:13:03.780 but yet

00:13:04.720 on the back end

00:13:06.040 we're dealing with

00:13:07.140 like I said

00:13:07.700 the most brutal regime

00:13:08.900 who has no value

00:13:11.460 for human life

00:13:12.400 no respect

00:13:13.420 for the standards

00:13:14.240 that we hold so dear

00:13:15.480 and yet we continue

00:13:17.060 to pursue that relationship

00:13:18.400 and at the end of the day

00:13:19.840 we've got to look

00:13:20.360 in the mirror

00:13:20.760 and ask ourselves

00:13:21.600 are we going to continue

00:13:22.760 to engage

00:13:23.340 in this hypocrisy

00:13:24.280 I know you've got

00:13:25.960 to get your bill

00:13:26.480 through the Senate first

00:13:27.980 and the House of Commons

00:13:29.060 will have the chance

00:13:29.960 to weigh in as well

00:13:30.820 but any early indications

00:13:32.500 how other parties

00:13:33.780 are going to respond

00:13:34.840 to this

00:13:35.200 I would assume

00:13:35.900 that this is something

00:13:36.620 that should cross party lines

00:13:38.540 although we know

00:13:39.280 from that motion

00:13:40.460 on condemning

00:13:41.400 the genocide

00:13:41.960 against Uyghurs 1.00

00:13:42.760 that the Liberal Cabinet

00:13:44.060 was very much

00:13:45.480 not interested

00:13:46.140 in making that condemnation

00:13:47.780 There's no doubt

00:13:49.080 the Trudeau government

00:13:49.940 as I said earlier on

00:13:51.880 they keep dragging

00:13:52.760 their feet

00:13:53.300 they keep

00:13:54.060 being in contempt

00:13:55.880 of Parliament

00:13:56.500 at the end of the day

00:13:57.420 the House of Commons

00:13:58.340 as I mentioned

00:13:59.080 has called upon

00:14:00.460 the government

00:14:00.880 to recognize

00:14:01.540 the genocide

00:14:02.100 they refuse

00:14:02.780 we've asked

00:14:03.680 for Magnitsky sanctions

00:14:04.760 they refuse

00:14:05.700 so they seem

00:14:07.960 to constantly

00:14:08.720 kowtow

00:14:09.380 to this Chinese regime

00:14:10.780 they seem

00:14:12.760 to condemn publicly

00:14:14.180 in terms of using words

00:14:16.240 certain behavior

00:14:17.280 that's inexcusable

00:14:18.340 but when it comes

00:14:19.060 to backing it up

00:14:19.920 with action

00:14:20.540 it never seems

00:14:22.320 to equate

00:14:23.180 the language

00:14:23.800 it's business as usual

00:14:25.720 it's trade delegations

00:14:27.200 as usual

00:14:27.860 we've seen instances

00:14:29.660 where senior liberals

00:14:30.900 including a former

00:14:32.240 prime minister

00:14:32.940 and senior liberal

00:14:34.560 cabinet ministers

00:14:35.480 come out

00:14:36.040 and actually

00:14:36.520 encourage this government

00:14:37.640 during the two Michaels crisis

00:14:39.280 to engage

00:14:41.220 in hostage diplomacy

00:14:42.300 something never seen before

00:14:44.040 and that's another

00:14:45.000 concern of mine

00:14:45.900 we've seen how

00:14:46.740 the Chinese regime

00:14:48.080 using various

00:14:49.380 organizations

00:14:50.360 and corporations

00:14:51.720 and agents

00:14:53.180 they have infiltrated

00:14:54.400 various institutions

00:14:55.940 and all aspects

00:14:57.060 of our governance

00:14:58.480 our academic institutions

00:15:00.320 the business milieu

00:15:01.420 and you see it

00:15:03.220 on a daily basis

00:15:04.140 so Canadians

00:15:04.740 not only have they become

00:15:06.020 addicted to cheap products

00:15:07.680 from China

00:15:08.180 but we've also

00:15:09.280 have seen

00:15:09.820 various industries

00:15:10.880 including many

00:15:11.780 in the media

00:15:12.340 that have been

00:15:13.240 addicted

00:15:13.780 to money

00:15:15.540 that the Chinese regime

00:15:17.040 has been pouring

00:15:18.020 into this country

00:15:18.900 through foundations

00:15:19.800 and academic chairs

00:15:21.800 and playing out advertising

00:15:23.860 when Huawei sponsors

00:15:25.400 Hockey Night in Canada

00:15:26.540 this is another form

00:15:29.740 of influence

00:15:30.520 on our media platforms

00:15:33.340 and communication platforms

00:15:34.920 in this country

00:15:35.580 and we have to remember

00:15:36.880 all these dollars

00:15:38.140 coming in

00:15:38.760 from all these

00:15:39.360 type of fronts

00:15:41.660 for the communist

00:15:42.500 authoritarian regime

00:15:43.860 are money

00:15:44.760 that they've made

00:15:45.360 off the back

00:15:46.100 of people

00:15:47.400 very well said

00:15:51.040 and you'll be happy

00:15:51.820 to know

00:15:52.120 and perhaps not

00:15:52.760 all that surprised

00:15:53.440 Huawei is not a sponsor

00:15:54.800 of the Andrew Lawton

00:15:55.740 show or True North

00:15:56.540 so we're good there

00:15:57.740 but I think your point

00:15:58.580 is very well taken

00:15:59.680 and in the absence

00:16:00.680 of action

00:16:01.180 we have some action

00:16:02.360 coming from you

00:16:03.400 Senator

00:16:03.720 in Bill S204

00:16:06.020 Senator Leo Houssakos

00:16:07.620 thank you so much

00:16:08.220 for joining me

00:16:08.680 it's good to talk to you

00:16:09.440 anytime Andrew

00:16:10.520 thank you so much

00:16:11.320 thanks for listening

00:16:12.620 to the Andrew Lawton show

00:16:13.820 support the program

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Juno News - December 04, 2021

Senator seeks ban on imports from Xinjiang, China

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