Speaking of major #NATO allies with federal elections this month, last Thursday's 🇨🇦Canadian🇨🇦 Leaders Debate featured a robust several minute long rebuttal by opposition party leaders of PM @JustinTrudeau's handling of Sino-Canadian Relations.

bbc.com/news/av/world-…
Sino-Canadian Relations seemed unimaginable to be a sticking point in Canadian politics just a few years ago, but have been hastened the status of:

☑️The Two Michaels
☑️Uyghur Genocide
☑️Huawei Telecoms Kit
☑️PRC-backed Political Interference
@CPC_HQ Leader/Leader of the Opposition @erinotoole's criticisms even garnered pushback from the CCP tabloid, the Global Times: Image
@politico's @AndyBlatchford wrote a stellar overview last month of what the political stakes for all Canadian political parties are as they relate to broader structural shifts in Sino-Canadian Relations:

politico.com/news/2021/08/1…
@noahbarkin, here's the full segment of the Leaders Debate discussing Sino-Canadian Relations. It's roughly seven minutes long. Leaders of smaller parties were just as critical of Trudeau's policies as O'Toole was.

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