Re: And the major Canadian parties hardly differ on foreign policy Archived Message
Posted by brooks on February 7, 2019, 8:24 pm, in reply to "Re: And the major Canadian parties hardly differ on foreign policy"
There you go, straight from the horse's mouth. Or ass in this case. If Ibbitson sounds very smug in the admission that there is now really only one party - the business party - with a few of factions in Canada, it's because of the central role his rag has played in demonizing every candidate and party that strayed from the neoliberal, Washington consensus over the past three or four decades (not that the Liberals ever strayed too far), and purging every dissident voice from its own pages. So he's really just admiring his own handiwork. As an aside, he knows very well that "hopes for trade talks (with China)" were not "wrecked by the Liberals’ insistence on putting human rights on the agenda" or "honouring the extradition treaty between Canada and the United States" and "leaving the rest to the courts", but from abandoning diplomatic norms, and engaging in international thuggery by lawlessly kidnapping a highly-respected Chinese business woman on behalf of the Global Godfather. That single, despicable act represents a level of shameless obsequiousness to the masters in Washington - even against their own business interests - that has probably never been surpassed by a canadian politician. Even Harper probably would have balked. But the hapless Justin Trudeau is literally putty in the hands of the backroom boys. Anyway, thanks for the article jackie, it's good to find confirmation from such a source!
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