Cultural Imperial posted:

You can stop rewatching the hunt for red October Lt cndr dallaire

Ambrose Burnside posted:

CI u never told me the story of dallaire pissing his pants

PT6A posted:

There's no good reason not to change the anthem, so there shouldn't be an argument. The mention of God should probably go away too, to be more inclusive of people of non-Abrahamic faiths.

ZShakespeare posted:

We should all just hum the hockey night in canada theme.

namaste faggots posted:

he was passed out on a bench in an ottawa park and the cop said he smelled like urine

quote:

China’s foreign minister to meet with Trudeau in Ottawa

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold high-level talks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Parliament Hill on Wednesday as planning gets under way for Mr. Trudeau’s official visit to China in the fall.

Mr. Wang is also meeting Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion in what the Chinese government said is the first annual meeting of foreign affairs ministers. The two men will discuss the upcoming G20 summit, global issues and human rights, Mr. Dion’s office said.

Charles Burton, a former counsellor at the Canadian embassy in Beijing, expressed surprise that the government had not informed Canadians that it has set up a formalized arrangement for annual talks with China’s foreign minister.

“You would have thought if Canada had established a formal mechanism for regular meetings between cabinet ministers of the two countries, normally one would expect that would have been publicly announced. It is quite a major thing,” Mr. Burton said in an interview.

Mr. Wang’s visit was announced Monday in Beijing and late Tuesday in Ottawa. Usually such visits are made public days before the event.

“The fact that this visit by a foreign minister of a major country has been done more or less secretly, presumably to prevent public demonstrations and representations being made about it, so it looks like the government is going about the China policy process in a way that will limit public debate,” Mr. Burton said.

The Prime Minister has made re-engagement with China a key foreign policy initiative as his government presses for a free-trade deal with the world’s second-largest economy – even as polls show Canadians have a very negative impression of the Chinese government and are narrowly opposed to a free-trade deal with the country.

A Nanos Research survey, commissioned by The Globe and Mail in February, found that 76 per cent of respondents had a negative or somewhat negative view of the Chinese government, compared with only 2 per cent who had positive and 9 per cent who had somewhat positive opinions.

By a narrow margin, poll respondents also did not like the idea of a China-Canada free-trade deal. Forty-seven per cent said they opposed or somewhat opposed talks, and 41 per cent said they supported or somewhat supported them.

The Nanos poll reached 1,000 Canadians through a telephone and online survey. It is considered accurate to within plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

China has made it a precondition of negotiations on free trade that Canada ensure an energy pipeline from the oil sands to the coast of British Columbia. It also wants the federal government to lift foreign investment restrictions on Chinese state-own enterprises in the oil and gas sector.

Mr. Trudeau promised before last fall’s election that he would lift the restrictions that were put in place by the former Conservative government, although Mr. Burton noted that Canada’s security agencies have concerns about Chinese control of vital Canadian resource companies.

“You have Canadian security agencies who are concerned about more Chinese state investment leading to more security problems. It seems to be the security agencies, human-rights groups and public opinion at large are wanting more input into the process which we engage China,” Mr. Burton said.

Mr. Trudeau’s former national security adviser, Richard Fadden, said the Chinese have been heavily engaged in spying and cyber attacks in Canada.

“Their broad approach is to use the vacuum cleaner approach. They’ll, you know, pretty well take anything,” Mr. Fadden, a former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said in an interview on Sunday. “So I think it’s actually quite difficult to balance all of this and make sure we have a work-a-day relationship, while at the same time making it very clear we don’t like the cyber attacks.”

Mr. Trudeau is planning an official visit of between six and eight days in China around the time of the G20 summit, which will be hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping in the southern city of Hangzhou from Sept. 4-5. Free trade will likely top the agenda.

Femtosecond posted:

wow how did I never hear about that Trudeau promise during the election? Funny that Trudeau is to the right of Harper here.

Femtosecond posted:

wow how did I never hear about that Trudeau promise during the election? Funny that Trudeau is to the right of Harper here.

PK loving SUBBAN posted:

PK loving SUBBAN posted:

I was talking to some offshore folks in Indonesia today and I found myself thinking, "Liberal deals with the brutal dictator Suharto made it possible for these jobs to be sent overseas."

namaste faggots posted:

You can stop rewatching the hunt for red October Lt cndr dallaire

Femtosecond posted:

wow how did I never hear about that Trudeau promise during the election? Funny that Trudeau is to the right of Harper here.

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

lol the pipeline talk sure takes o n a new light with this.

gently caress why are they always jacking off free trade agreements, do they want to push more jobs oversees

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

lol the pipeline talk sure takes o n a new light with this.

gently caress why are they always jacking off free trade agreements, do they want to push more jobs oversees

Seat Safety Switch posted:

Still better than arming the Saudis I guess.

brucio posted:

https://twitter.com/alexboutilier/status/738387341165899776?s=09

Tory freakout incoming

jm20 posted:

Let me pose this question. If we are manufacturing weapons of war which ostensibly are used to kill why does it matter to whom we sell to?

jm20 posted:

Let me pose this question. If we are manufacturing weapons of war which ostensibly are used to kill why does it matter to whom we sell to?

namaste faggots posted:

Unironically this. Let the free market decide. Isis wants to pay for c7 rifles? Who are we to judge?

brucio posted:

https://twitter.com/alexboutilier/status/738387341165899776?s=09

Tory freakout incoming

El Scotch posted:

https://twitter.com/kady/status/738388242207232004

brucio posted:

I'm looking forward to the Tories being sidelined forever. Is there any system that would be good for them other than FPTP?

brucio posted:

I'm looking forward to the Tories being sidelined forever. Is there any system that would be good for them other than FPTP?

brucio posted:

I'm looking forward to the Tories being sidelined forever. Is there any system that would be good for them other than FPTP?

brucio posted:

https://twitter.com/ScottReidCPC/status/738405511540965381?s=09

Lol

Vintersorg posted:

What??

Seat Safety Switch posted:

I thought Dion trying to put a positive spin on the media scrum where the Chinese foreign minister dressed down an iPolitics reporter for asking what death camp Kevin Garratt is in was the biggest eye roll I was going to have this morning.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/chinese-foreign-minister-berates-reporter-1.3611510

Still better than arming the Saudis I guess.

Wang Yi posted:

“I have to ask whether you understand China,” he said. “Have you been to China? Do you know that China has lifted more than 600 million people out of poverty? Do you know that China is now the second largest economy in the world, (built up) from a very low foundation? Do you think development is possible for China without the protection of human rights?”