MP Michael Ma crossed the floor in the House of Commons to question a Chinese expert on China's human rights record, and ended up questioning whether or not she had actually seen forced labor in China. He later apologized for his mistake, but still managed to make himself look like a complete clown.
00:01:10.360Because it analyzes risks that are obviously there.
00:01:16.360what a what a reddit type question from michael ma uh so you're from the risk institute so you
00:01:22.400just go around basically trying to find risk where it isn't at it's like clearly a country like china
00:01:28.920poses a risk to western countries like canada and he's trying to like trip her up with like that
00:01:35.000just obnoxious snarky question about that but i'm gonna let this finish then we're gonna get to his
00:01:40.500response on x to all this so uh the last question then this is where it really fall it falls off
00:01:46.640the rails if you haven't seen it yet is you claim about forced labor in shenzhen have you witnessed
00:01:52.340this yourself have you been there ever i've been to china many times have you witnessed since 1979
00:01:59.800have you witnessed force that's just a short answer have you witnessed forced labor in shenzhen
00:02:06.860yes or no um so did you get that from here i work closely with human rights watch where
00:02:13.980researchers did witness it yeah uh so this was an extremely bad look and it seems like michael
00:02:21.660ma completely misread how loud and proud he was about to he was allowed to be about being a ccp
00:02:27.420plant like this is such a gift to pier poliev and the conservatives who should have never greenlit
00:02:34.140somebody like this as their candidate in markham unionville remember you know that one guy that
00:02:40.140paul chang the former liberal mp went after and said that he should be arrested and you can take
00:02:45.200the bounty on his head um it was uh something i forget the guy's name it's really sad i can't
00:02:51.340no joe tay he was saying that you could go ahead and basically take joe tay to the chinese consul
00:02:56.260and get a big bounty on his head joe tay being a freedom activist from hong kong who now lives in
00:03:01.900Canada and as a Canadian citizen. Michael Ma was literally the replacement candidate for Joe Tay
00:03:08.680in Markham Unionville. The party, the Conservative Party, bumped Joe Tay, a fantastic anti-communist
00:03:15.760candidate from the very winnable Markham Unionville riding in favor of Michael Ma, and Joe Tay had to
00:03:21.800go run in Danforth North, which was sort of a dead-on-arrival riding. Joe Tay still gave the
00:03:27.680liberal a good run for their money, but he could have been an MP right now from the riding of
00:03:32.500Markham Unionville. But instead, we have Michael Ma, who then crosses the floor. And at least the
00:03:37.220funny part is that he's blowing up in the faces of the liberals right now. So now let's get to his
00:03:44.080tweet response to all this, because he's trying to make it all better and clarify that he didn't
00:03:50.380actually or he wasn't denying forced labor in any way, even though you clearly just saw him do that.
00:03:56.240Before we get into the tweet, though, I just want to remind you guys, if you like the show,
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00:04:28.720app that helps channels apparently. But here is Michael Ma's response. Naturally he turned the
00:04:35.840comments off so people could not actually say anything against him. And Michael Ma here says
00:04:42.020today during an exchange with a witness at the standing committee on industry and technology
00:04:48.140I asked questions that inadvertently came across as dismissive of the serious issue of forced labor.
00:04:54.520To be clear, my line of questioning referred to the auto manufacturing in Shenzhen, China, and not Xinjiang.
00:05:02.320I regret this mistake and apologize to Ms. McQuaig-Johnson and my fellow committee members.
00:05:08.640I condemn forced labor in all of its forms.
00:05:11.320Canada has amongst the most rigorous forced labor import laws in the world,
00:05:15.400and I am proud to support the government's work to eradicate forced labor from supply chains
00:05:20.120and enforce Canada's important prohibition. Well, no, he doesn't, because in fact, he is trying to
00:05:27.340let China off the hook for the fact that they do have forced labor in their country. Lots of it,
00:05:33.620millions of people are involved in it. But he's saying, well, you know, when they put together
00:05:37.960EVs, there's no forced labor, there's no one handcuffed to a workbench. So ergo, it's totally
00:05:44.660okay for Canada to trade for those goods, even though other parts of the manufacturing process
00:05:50.480could be in other areas of China. And by the way, we should be trying to trade less with China
00:05:55.380anyways. They're basically just dumping EVs in Canada's market to try and undermine our own EV
00:06:01.340market. It's not a good exchange of goods between Canada and China right now. This is not an equal
00:06:07.820partnership the way it typically was with Canada and the United States. I want that relationship
00:06:14.240to go back to zero tariffs, rather than us branching out and trying to get in bed with
00:06:18.720the Chinese government for no reason. But this post earned itself a community note. It hasn't
00:06:24.700been approved yet. And the community notes immediately point out things like, Ma is not
00:06:30.240being truthful. His own office issued a statement saying his questioning was intentional and
00:06:35.460tactical to move the topic away from the anti-China EV witness to the pro-China EV witness.
00:06:42.060So yeah, Michael Ma's own statements are now contradicting each other. Another community note that was proposed says, even after the exchange, Michael was reported to have told the same witness he didn't believe the reports of forced labor. This makes the above apology pure, not sincere, and performative in nature.
00:07:02.540And by the way, as we saw yesterday, a CBC reporter chased him down outside of parliament to ask him if he believes there is forced labor in China, not specifically in the manufacture of EVs, just forced labor in China.
00:07:19.020And he just said that, I believe there's forced labor all around the world.
00:07:23.080And he would not actually specifically say that there's forced labor in China.
00:07:27.020Now, I need to get to something that's really interesting, because Michael Ma is claiming that he had no intention of denying forced labor in China, but some of his own allied publications kind of give away the game.
00:07:42.080This was posted by a friend of the channel, Nahon Azzam.
00:07:46.740And he says, after Michael Ma made those disturbing comments at the committee and the CBC,
00:07:52.500Michael Ma is now on a CPC propaganda site.
00:07:56.100Who in the actual hell vetted Michael Ma to run for our party in Markham Unionville?
00:08:00.740Seriously, we have to vet better people.
00:08:02.720And he's, of course, talking about the Conservative Party needing to vet better people.
00:08:05.700But the funny thing is it has now become the problem of Carney.
00:08:09.440But that publication understood exactly what Michael Ma was doing.
00:08:15.280This is a translated version of the website.
00:08:17.660It's just using the general Google AI translate.
00:12:26.160This is a confirmation of horrendous human rights abuses in the region at the moment.
00:12:31.080Yeah, so they can't, Ma can't pretend that he wasn't doing what he was clearly doing.
00:12:37.100The CCP publications agree with what he was doing of trying to basically use a fringe example to disprove the issue of forced labor in China.
00:12:45.940Because when questioned about forced labor in general in China, he couldn't bring himself to actually say it exists.
00:12:51.960Now, he basically claims he was just talking about two different provinces.
00:12:55.680And so he wasn't talking about the one with the Uyghurs in it specifically.
00:12:59.060But he doesn't actually say that there was forced labor in China.
00:13:02.400He just clarifies he wasn't talking about that province.
00:13:04.600very clearly there is something going on here but the thing is that the liberals probably just want
00:13:11.360to sweep this under the rug without actually having to properly apologize because their
00:13:16.140entire agenda still relies on them growing closer to china and here's the thing is that this is not
00:13:23.040the only person inside the liberal party with deep ties with the ccp we also have the independent
00:13:30.260sender yuen pa wu who has been an obvious ccp man in canada for a long time so i'm going to go
00:13:39.120through a few things here uh this is from cbc watcher quoting from a bureau article from sam
00:13:45.000cooper's people it says images show la king vice president of the international department of the
00:13:52.340central committee of the communist party of china in a working meeting with kretzian and a former
00:13:57.180and a formal photograph with Senator Wu,
00:14:23.400just requiring people with obvious connections to the CCP, to the Chinese government,
00:14:28.980to disclose them to different united front work department organizations.
00:14:33.080Here is him in the Senate pushing back on this.
00:14:35.820It is bad enough that foreign entities are sowing disinformation and interfering in our democracy.
00:14:41.960What is worse is that Canadians, including parliamentarians, are aiding and abetting these harmful acts.
00:14:48.420You might think that these folks would have to register with the Foreign Influence Transparency Registry,
00:14:54.600but the registry appears to exclude non-state actors,
00:14:58.700which to my mind are the biggest, most dangerous source of disinformation interference in Canada today.
00:15:06.560Some of you will be inclined to take the Jamestown report at face value.
00:15:10.240Let me be clear, if you have evidence that laws have been broken, report it to the authorities.
00:15:15.200But if you suspect a Chinese Canadian organization is a malign foreign agent for the Chinese government simply because it celebrates Chinese culture, promotes trade and investment, has ties with Chinese organizations, or agrees with some of the positions of Beijing, you are promoting a modern form of Chinese exclusion.
00:15:35.260oh my goodness so you're now in favor of the the chinese exclusion act from the from the 1910s
00:15:43.780the 19 aughts if you think that obvious ccp front groups should have to be registered as such
00:15:50.260like this man is a complete clown and he is like obviously a beijing man when you go through his
00:15:56.680social media timeline and the entire thing is basically just trying to attack western allies
00:16:02.700of canada attacking the united states attacking israel attacking anyone else who has a problem
00:16:08.780with china it's it's quite a thing that this man is going to be in the senate until he turns 75
00:16:15.120years old or whatever the cutoff is and we're not going to do anything about it but it's kind of the
00:16:20.520pattern right now for the uh for the liberals the the thing is a lot of parties have problems with
00:16:26.760certain bad actors infiltrating them uh calistanis try and get into pretty much all the parties all
00:16:32.340those basically Sikh separatists who want basically Canada to take a very oppositional
00:16:37.740type of relationship or stance against India. And you get a lot of the CCP, though,
00:16:43.920within the liberals. It's not nearly as big a problem in the conservatives, although
00:16:48.120the fact that they ever let Michael Ma run for them is a massive red flag, and that does need
00:16:53.060to be corrected. But like, goodness, it's so obvious. It's ridiculous. In fact, actually,
00:16:59.820the person who's been suing me since December of 2021 is linked to many of these CCP front
00:17:07.980groups, these different United Front Work Department front groups, literally is sitting
00:17:12.100on the board of anti-Taiwanese independence groups. Like, my goodness. And this stuff gets
00:17:18.220to operate freely. The guy's a developer and he gets to have all these connections. It's just
00:17:22.700insane that this is allowed to go on in this country. And like, we just pretend like it's
00:17:27.260no big deal. Watch the media try and sweep this under the rug. Now, the media is not so duplicitous
00:17:33.380that they'll just immediately pretend it's a nothing burger. It's just in a week or two,
00:17:37.520they're not going to keep questioning the fact that Michael Ma is obviously a CCP puppet sitting
00:17:42.980in the liberal government. They're going to let them off the hook. He's going to make his apology,
00:17:46.600and then it's going to be considered old news, despite the fact that this man is a massive
00:17:50.920of security risk. I dare the liberals to try and slag Pierre Polyev again for not getting his
00:17:57.840security clearance, which in fact basically made it impossible to actually speak out against foreign
00:18:03.920interference, because if you get your security clearance, you're under such a heavy NDA that you
00:18:08.540can't actually talk about foreign interference at all. Anyways, with that all being said, thank you
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