I’d like to call myself an optimist, but maybe I’m actually a fool for believing that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government will ever change when it comes to dealing with China.
They’ve made some steps over the past week or so rallying international support to condemn the mock trials of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, but I still have lingering doubts that they’re truly going to change.
There are too many instances where the Trudeau government has bet on China rather than Canada for me to be overly confident.
The latest example comes from a memo released to the Commons health committee on the procurement of hand sanitizer and other forms of PPE a year ago.
Companies across the country were in the midst of retooling their assembly lines to produce whatever Canada needed to fight off COVID-19. Breweries and distilleries were churning out hand sanitizer, often looking for nothing more than to have their costs covered.
Clothing manufacturers and even auto parts plants offered to produce the surgical and N-95 masks so desperately needed at the time.
Yet rather than tap into this can-do spirit, the Liberals once again bet on China. Just as they would bet on China over Canadian firms a few months later when it came to looking for a partner for developing a vaccine.
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