Canada and Australia used to be on par economically. That changed around 2010 when Australia started making hay with their trade with China.
Canadian Conservatives have fully bought into American anti-China dogma. It was a trap we fell into when in his first term, Trump took Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou hostage. Trudeau's Liberal government rolled over for the U.S. extradition request and arrested her in Vancouver.
I remember at the time retired members of Canada's diplomatic corp recommending that ministerial prerogative be exercised to release her. They saw through the sham and ultimately the American DOJ did not prosecute her. It ruined our trade relations with China.
Conservatives are still at it with their absolutist notion that China's policies in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) constitute a genocide, or at the least, so abusive of civil rights that Canada's trade with China should be abrogated.
It's an emotional appeal, but one devoid of an understanding of history. Many of these Conservatives are ones that will quickly proclaim a danger in the immigration of Muslims to Canada.
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