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BRIAN PECKFORD – Why the Equivalency — US and China?


This is what gets me – why the equivalency between the US and China?

 

The first thing the Canadian press does in this issue of extradition of the Huawei Executive is to try and put both countries on an equal footing.

 

You know Canada is caught between two super powers (the media says). No!  We are talking about a Totalitarian state and a Democratic state. That is what we are talking about.

 

We are talking about China imprisoning two Canadians on trumped up charge. They do not have a mansion to live in while on bail unlike the Huawei executive.

 

Does the US have two Canadians in jail on false charges?

 

Using the super state analogy sends the wrong message and demonstrates the soft approach Canada seems to want take. The press just follows the Government line.

 

This from Canadian Press two days ago:

 

‘The upshot, said several analysts, is a deepening of a crisis in Sino-Canadian relations that would force the government to continue to seek allies in a dispute that has put Canada in the middle of a fight between two geopolitical giants.’

 

And this Chinese company is not an independent company, it is controlled by the Chinese government.

 

So, using this geopolitical analogy masks an undemocratic, brutal regime and falsely puts it on the same plane as a democratic USA.

 

You would think the press would want to highlight China’s communist nature -- and undemocratic government.

 

No!

 

Oh, I forgot, the press is involved in getting money from the government.

 

What is it that China has on Canada?

 

Where are out morals? Our democratic principles?

 

 

Brian Peckford was elected in 1972, as a Progressive Conservative, to the Newfoundland Labrador House of Assembly. He became Premier at the age of 36, and held the leadership of his party and government from 1979 to 1989.

Since leaving politics, Peckford has conducted public inquires for the governments of British Columbia and Canada, has served on numerous Boards including the CBC, and has been active in public affairs.  

In 1993, he and his wife Carol moved to British Columbia and they now live in Parksville, on Vancouver Island. 

He blogs at Peckford 42.

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