After Prime Minister Mark Carney's trip to China, media outlets like the CBC and the Globe and Mail are quick to highlight the economic benefits of trade with China, but completely ignore the elephant in the room: China being a threat to Canada's national security.
00:00:02.840Prime Minister Mark Carney's trip to China is obviously going to be very concerning for Canadian voters,
00:00:09.300and you can tell that the trip is probably not going to be an electorally good thing for Carney
00:00:14.280based on how news outlets like the CBC are covering it.
00:00:19.160The CBC will always try and make Mark Carney and the Liberals overall look good.
00:00:24.300If there was a big Liberal scandal out there, while yes they can't spin it as a good thing,
00:00:28.700they would say that it's a nothing burger and nobody actually cares about this,
00:00:32.340and they'd make the scandal as boring as possible to try and make as few Canadians actually care about it
00:00:37.780while fulfilling their duty to actually cover the news.
00:00:42.200And after Mark Carney's China trip, you see from outlets like the CBC that, well, one,
00:00:48.760they want to quickly move the news cycle on to anything but China.
00:00:52.400You can see right here on Google, we're talking about Qatar and Greenland when it comes to Mark Carney,
00:00:59.020not the extremely concerning China trip.
00:01:02.420The trip to Qatar was also quite concerning, but not as many Canadians really understand the problems with Qatar.
00:01:09.020It's one of the biggest sponsors of terrorism on the planet,
00:01:12.000but it just doesn't, you know, loom as largely in the foreground as a country like Iran or Russia does
00:01:18.780in terms of just being an international troublemaker.
00:01:22.560But with the China story, and we're going to be specifically talking about the CBC and Rosemary Barton here,
00:01:28.540they're celebrating what Carney is doing while also being very guarded and defensive of it.
00:01:34.500They want to talk about all the great aspects while trying to just completely ignore the elephant in the room
00:01:41.600in terms of Carney saying that China was our biggest national security threat.
00:01:46.580You think that would be the wall-to-wall coverage?
00:01:49.440Why are we talking with China and wanting to integrate closer with them on security and culture and economics
00:01:56.460when they're our greatest national security threat, which is something that Carney himself specifically said?
00:02:03.560He literally went out of his way on the debate stage last election to mention it,
00:02:07.900even though they had actually not even gone into the foreign policy topic yet, or they passed it.
00:02:12.440He used his own moment to talk about whatever he wanted to specifically say that China was a threat.
00:02:18.440And so we're going to look at, in shortly here, a clip from the Rosemary Barton show.
00:02:23.440But I attempted to watch the Rosemary Barton live show just to give you the rundown of what they're doing.
00:02:31.040And this is currently the propaganda effort.
00:02:32.880So the show opened up with Rosemary Barton giving just the cliff notes details of what the new trade deal with China is.
00:02:41.060It's bringing down our tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles from like 100% or some large percentage down to like 6.1%.
00:02:50.560They are going to be removing their large tariff on things like Canadian seafood products and canola oil.
00:02:56.140Well, that's good for the people that that affects, obviously, but there's a lot more to it, to the story than simply just what the trade terms are.
00:03:05.700If it was an allied nation and we had reduced tariffs on both sides, that would be a good thing.
00:03:10.720But obviously, you know, they just want to cover the economics of it because they don't want to talk about China being a national security threat.
00:03:18.180So Rosemary Barton does the cliff notes and then she brings on an economist, a very liberal person, as you can probably detect, who then talks about how this is so fantastic because think of the economic benefits for Canada's economy.
00:03:32.780And we need to we need to basically trade more with China into to become more independent from the United States.
00:03:38.540And this is just taken as an inherently good thing between Rosemary and this guest.
00:03:43.180And then Rosemary moves on to her second guest, who is a Saskatchewan canola farmer.
00:03:48.720Now, this is a very sympathetic character in the narrative because nobody wants canola farmers in Saskatchewan to go broke.
00:03:55.640China was a big market for them. So this is a good thing.
00:03:58.400And they bring on that person in order to, you know, pump up why this is great and we should ignore all the security issues.
00:04:04.700This person's not nefarious. Obviously, they're just on to talk about their own interests.
00:04:09.480But we don't bring on anyone to talk about the fact that we are now just going to damage Canada's auto sector by, you know, opening up trade with the country that is perfectly fine with just dumping cheap EVs into our economy to undermine our auto sector.
00:04:24.600That doesn't get brought up in it. And what the biggest thing that doesn't get brought up in it is, you know, China's national security threat.
00:04:32.140But the fact that they, you know, engage in massive amounts of human rights abuses, once they got into the panel show later on with Rosemary Barton, they did bring it up.
00:04:42.000And the way they brought it up was very telling that the CBC doesn't really know long term how to pitch this as a good thing.
00:04:49.340So they're just going to obfuscate around a lot of the details. They're going to bring up the stuff that's nice.
00:04:54.680They're not going to bring up the stuff that they don't like. And then they are in this case, they're going to try and pretend Emily Nicholas here is going to pretend like,
00:05:04.700well, what's the really the difference between China and the US in terms of, you know, moral standing on the planet?
00:05:11.840Check out this clip that the CBC watcher put on X.
00:05:14.800Well, and it comes Emily to all of Sherelle's excellent points, you know, as the prime minister himself agrees with that notion that that China is more reliable and more predictable than the United States.
00:05:27.360I think that's probably a fair assessment, frankly, given what's happened just over this weekend, the threats that Donald Trump has made.
00:05:34.260What does that tell you about how Ottawa is approaching these things?
00:05:38.180And by the way, what kind of host is Rosemary Barton?
00:05:43.080Pose the question, if you're going to be a neutral observer, a neutral interviewer, pose the question, let them answer it.
00:05:48.820What was she doing there with all the qualifications of saying, well, I think that's a fair assessment that China is more stable and predictable than the United States.
00:05:55.880It's like China supports chaotic, pro-terror, pro-war dictatorships all over the planet.
00:06:06.480They were literally a main sponsor and partner of Maduro's communist regime in Venezuela.
00:06:13.780They were really mad at Donald Trump capturing Maduro because China, in fact, is totally fine with regimes that are oppressing people around the world as long as they are getting their cut.
00:06:23.460In fact, they really don't care if even if they weren't getting their cut, if they just weren't, they would just ignore the country and not help them at all.
00:06:30.640But they partner with some of those brutal regimes around the planet.
00:06:34.080And we're going to say that Trump is not stable or the U.S. is not predictable because he's mouthing off about Greenland.
00:06:47.340Trump clearly is just looking for some symbolic victory over NATO and over Denmark right now, even though the U.S. can still build bases pretty much wherever they want on Greenland.
00:06:57.800This is going to go away and it's going to be one of those episodes in history where people will bring it up one day.
00:07:02.740They're like, remember when Trump tried to invade Greenland and you're going to have to fact check them like, oh, my goodness, that's not what happened.
00:07:08.700People were just mouthing off back and forth and then nothing occurred.
00:07:12.140But now let's get to the actual answer there after Rosemary Barton's just horrific setup.
00:07:19.100I think it's very helpful for us to even be having this conversation on basically the economy versus morals.
00:07:28.360I think for most Canadians, it's going to be clearer and more of a reflex when it comes to engaging in relationship with China.
00:07:36.400But in hindsight and with perspective, it's also we could be raising exactly the same question with our relationship with the U.S.
00:07:44.920Where are our guardrails when it comes to human rights abuse, when it comes to ICE agents coming in and harassing and deporting people?
00:07:55.720What people? What people, Amelia? What people are these? What is this?
00:08:04.060Oh, they're harassing and deporting people. Oh, yeah, there's walking into a random like just shop messing up people's hair and throwing just some random person in the back of the car and driving them out over to the Mexican border.
00:08:16.120Like, no, that's not, in fact, what's happening. You can like ICE. You can dislike ICE.
00:08:23.640I'm not sure why you would dislike ICE. Every country has border patrol agents who have to make sure to deport people who are there illegally.
00:08:30.040You can maybe not like their tactics. Maybe you can just say that they're a little little heavy handed at times.
00:08:36.380Compared to China? No, no, they are not. In China, they run concentration camps for people they just don't culturally like.
00:08:44.320Like, that's a thing that happens there. And we're going to try and compare that to ICE.
00:08:49.080But again, this is the only way we can actually make this seem morally reasonable that we are signing a deal with China,
00:08:56.620who, again, is just going to exploit it by dumping cheap EVs into our economy.
00:09:01.160Because this is also a bit of a tangent. Because China's EV manufacturers are partially government owned.
00:09:07.640They will take a massive haircut on price in order to destroy your market.
00:09:11.920And then they'll jack up costs after that.
00:09:13.740You can't really trade freely with a hostile foreign actor.
00:09:18.020You can trade freely with Japan and Korea.
00:09:20.740All their firms are pretty much private.
00:09:25.240Like, I know Japan's government sometimes likes to own stock in companies.
00:09:29.440But that's very different than China's very semi-direct control of some of these firms.
00:09:34.260The thing is that you can't trade freely when a country is willing to lose money on a sale in order to make sure that your own auto sector becomes subservient to theirs.
00:09:44.240But regardless, like, but now the only way we can actually justify what is already not a very good deal based on some other details that we have, we have to make sure that, like, we have to denigrate the United States as if it is the country that has concentration camps, wants to invade Taiwan, literally crashes boats into fishermen in the Philippines.
00:10:05.480And see, yes, America's like that because they take illegal immigrants and they make them leave something every country either does or should do.
00:10:14.880They're kicking them up, even American citizens, killing them on the street.
00:10:18.620Where is our, where is our, our, our, our morale?
00:10:22.300Oh, they're killing Americans in the streets.
00:10:27.600It's just like Iran out there in the streets of Minneapolis.
00:10:30.780You can say good shoot or bad shoot in terms of that one good woman who ended up getting shot when she started driving her car towards an ICE agent.
00:10:40.100And I think that, generally speaking, if you drive a vehicle towards a police officer, you're probably going to, you're taking your life into your own hands.
00:10:47.920That's probably a very basic common sense take.
00:10:51.360Don't drive a vehicle towards a nice officer.
00:10:54.580Regardless, let's even say the officer just took out a gun and shot some random activist.
00:11:01.280How does that have anything to do with China as a government being a national security threat to Canada?
00:11:08.260A rogue officer, even if it was a rogue officer, and I don't even believe that that's really what happened there, even if it was, that doesn't get China off the hook here.
00:11:18.880China is a country where at the, what is it, the Tiananmen Square, I sometimes don't pronounce it right, in that massacre, like the army with tanks and other vehicles and by shooting people,
00:11:30.480just murdered like a thousand of their own citizens protesting against the anti-democratic policies of them.
00:11:36.940And we're going to compare that to a random woman getting shot by an ICE officer in a, in a case where, frankly, it's not even that hard to dispute that she was not trying, that she might have been either trying to hit him or did something so stupid he thought he was, she was trying to hit him and shot her.
00:11:55.560And so, because we don't have one there, it's a, it's a form of relativism that is really hard to swallow, what I'm discussing, but I think this is what Mark Carney was hinting to when he said, we take the will as it is.
00:12:10.500Um, there is not a large power that is ethical for Canada to trade with right now.
00:12:17.440Um, so, um, we just have to, uh, deal with, uh, with, uh, everybody that's, that's out there.
00:12:25.800So based on this current framing, we could trade with North Korea, Iran, Equatorial Guinea, any country that basically enslaves and abuses its own people because, well, you know, orange man bad in the United States and ICE bad.
00:12:41.640And really, can we even see a difference between ICE and the Chinese government locking up Uyghurs in concentration camps?
00:12:53.560If you cannot, uh, if you cannot rely on, uh, people's ethical stance when it comes to commercial relationship, what you can do to, uh, protect your own capacity to be taking, uh, decisions on your own and protect your own sovereignty.
00:13:11.640Is really just to diversify it, not to put your egg, your eggs all in the same basket and make sure that there is basically evil everywhere, but you're not too dependent on one sort of evil.
00:13:23.920So now in this framing, we've also moved, we have fully moved, although she's now admitting that China is a type of evil, but she's now also trying to put America in the evil basket here, which is again, just absurd.
00:13:34.980The way I would just say the prime minister office would phrase it, but I think this is, uh, where we are in 2026 and that we need to get used to it.
00:13:43.460Though, though they'd have said, or he has said, we, we can't be, we have become over dependent on the United States and, and that's obviously.
00:13:50.300You're not going to challenge, okay, of course, Rosemary Barton is not going to channel a challenge any of that idiocy right there.
00:13:55.440And that's going to be the CBC's tactic.
00:13:58.020It's, they're going to basically pretend like, well, what's really the difference between China and, and, and the United States.
00:14:04.560And then they're just going to talk about, oh my goodness, wow, you got canola or tariffs taken off.
00:14:09.240That means we can just ignore all the stuff China does to us, you know, intellectual property theft, harassing our citizens on our own soil, harassing their families back home in China and Hong Kong, you know, locking up our people.
00:14:21.200It's gotten to the point where we now are letting, there are Chinese officials going after Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavaro, I think.
00:14:30.960Like the two Michaels who are locked up in China, they've been sounding off about the foolhardiness of what Carney is doing here.
00:14:37.920And you have Chinese officials slandering them saying they were spies and they got what they deserved and they should have stayed locked up.
00:14:44.760And no Canadian officials saying, hey, what are you saying there?
00:14:48.540Oh yeah, we're no, no deal anymore if you're going to actually justify locking up our people.
00:14:53.080No, that, that's something that can be thrown under the bus.
00:16:08.440What matters is competence, stability, and understanding how power markets and geopolitics actually work.
00:16:13.980The nonstop Canada's broken rhetoric, born with a convoy and kept alive by Maple Mega, is a grift-wrapped talking point for foreign interference.
00:16:22.620Oh, yeah, guys, it's foreign interference that people think that Canada is broken because we can look and read a chart and see the economy's not very good.
00:16:31.300That crime over the past five to seven years is very elevated compared to what it was before.
00:16:36.760We can see that the immigration system is broken, that we have a lot of cultural fraying right now because of it.
00:16:52.500And by the way, I'm happy for Saskatchewan canola farmers at the same time.
00:16:57.760How about instead of subsidizing our auto sector, we just don't let the Chinese EVs into our economy, lower taxes, lower regulations.
00:17:08.200And if we are to subsidize one thing over the other, how about we subsidize the canola oil before we subsidize the much larger auto sector in order to cope with the EV dumping that the Chinese government is going to do?
00:17:19.820It's so stupid. In general, if we just cut taxes overall, we could probably just be running a far better economy right now without having to use subsidies targeted to different industries to keep them alive.
00:17:31.920We're doing a lot of band-aid solutions here, but it's, oh my goodness, it's ridiculous that we're calling it foreign interference for people to criticize our own government.
00:17:39.580At the same time, we're getting into bed with the CCP.
00:17:43.320But she goes on, Saskatchewan says that this is a foreign interference and it undermines trust, stokes resentment, convince people their country isn't worth defending.
00:17:54.520That's the playbook. I'm done pretending that constant cynicism is patriotism.
00:17:59.700It isn't. It is. It's destabilizing, unserious and embarrassingly easy to manipulate.
00:18:04.120We don't need louder outrage. We need adults who understand the stakes and remember what it means to be Canadian.
00:18:10.500Well, I remember Mark Carney seeing China as our biggest national security threat.
00:18:17.640This is where he doesn't seem serious, seeing as he will say one thing and flip-flop tomorrow when other opportunities arise.
00:18:26.320That's people's problem here, but apparently we're unserious because we can see him say something and then do the opposite and have a problem with it.
00:18:35.060That is apparently foreign interference.
00:18:37.080The definition of foreign interference is now not liking something Carney and the liberal government do.
00:18:44.380But the reason I use that woman as an example of where the liberals are at is there are so many people who just want to think that the people they voted for are competent.
00:18:53.460Because a lot of these people are more upper middle class, retired, or at least financially stable, and they just want to feel comfy with their voting option.
00:19:03.820Because all the decisions that they're making in terms of how they vote are not really affecting them too much.
00:19:10.060Well, you know, you should shut up and stop whining if you're noticing things bad.
00:19:14.300Because I'm actually doing pretty good right now.
00:19:16.640And to admit that the liberals are not doing a very good job on all the promises that they had made and on just other standards of moral and integrity and corruption.
00:19:27.540Because by pointing out they're not doing well on that, it's like saying I voted wrong.