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Feb 18 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This is so very very very very very very very not Canada's "Tiananmen Square moment"
Very. Not.
At. ALL.
You idiots.
STOP

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This is it!! #MengWanzhou hearing in US federal court in Brooklyn begins!! She is appearing via video from Vancouver. She confirms her presence. Court gets off to an awkward start when judge calls her Ms Wang, and has to be corrected....
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All quiet outside #MengWanzhou’s Shaughnessy mansion on what could be a monumental day for the Huawei exec!
Read all/some about it scmp.com/news/china/dip…
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A thread ensues: Canada has a handful of federal electorates that are ethnic Chinese majority/near-majority seats, all clustered around Richmond BC & Markham ON. I've gone thru #Elxn44 numbers & all experienced a plunge in Tory support, large and remarkable in context IMO. 2/
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In Steveston-Richmond East (47% Chinese), Con vote share was -8.1% and Lib share +7.5%. A comfortable Tory win in 2019, now a comfortable Lib win. "But this seat often yo-yos," you say. Well sure, but let's look next door 4/
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Sep 23, 2021
You know, there are still about 3,400 mail-in ballots to be counted in #VancouverGranville, where Liberal Taleeb Noormohamed currently leads by 258 votes
Only 45% of the 6275 special ballots have been counted
elections.ca/enr/help/help_… and elections.ca/vote/app/vbm/r…
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Sep 22, 2021
In Richmond, BC, and Markham, Ontario, the Conservative vote plunged in Canada’s most Chinese electorates. Ousted Richmond MP Kenny Chiu had doors slammed in his face. He blames "disinformation" and "lies" abt his stances on HK and China scmp.com/news/china/dip… via @scmpnews
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Across Canada, in Markham-Unionville, Cda's most Chinese electorate of all, the Tory MP suffered 7% swing, and the Liberals picked up a whopping 10.3%.
That defied Ontario trend that saw the Lib vote down 2.7% and the Tory vote up 2 points!
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