We're screwed.
“The signal is clear: They are absolutely 100 percent done with climate change [policies] as a restriction on U.S. growth and energy, and their priority is going to be developing their energy sector and using that as the main means of promoting economic growth,” McKitrick told The Epoch Times.
This “absolutely” will leave Canada in the dust given the already-existing competitiveness gap, he added. “That makes it really hard for us to attract foreign investment, and this widens that gap to massive proportions.”
A group of top national security experts is sounding the alarm: Canada’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has crossed from economic engagement into a full-blown democratic threat.
At a Dec. 6 forum in Toronto, former RCMP proceeds-of-crime director Garry Clement called the CCP “the biggest transnational organized crime group ever seen,” warning that Beijing is actively infiltrating Canada’s political, business, and cultural institutions. Through the United Front Work Department, the CCP co-opts elites, business leaders, community organizations, and media outlets—while intimidating and surveilling dissidents “on a daily basis.”
Clement also linked Beijing to the fentanyl crisis, saying the CCP could shut down precursor shipments to Canada “if they really wanted to,” but instead allows the flow as a form of “disruptive warfare,” echoing the tactics of the Opium Wars....