Local critics are joking that the Canadian Forces will join trounce on the AFP.
The Filipino Embassy has withdrawn the ambassador and some of the staff there in response to Ottawa's slow ass response to get the garbage back after the 15th (local time I guess).
Right as I needed to procure visas for my bosses. Sigh...
Oissu!So, Trump went and pardoned Conrad Black. I'm sure its just a coincidence that Black wrote a bunch of op-eds and a freaking book praising him....
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/conrad-black-pardon-trump-1.5137985
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Trump being Trump. No more and no less.
I hold the secrets of the machine.https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.4425790
A CTV News vid about the debate going on in the House of Commons regarding the formal arrests of Spavor and Korvig.
Environment Canada has contracted a logistic company to ship the trash back after they're sterilized to ensure that they're safe after June, but Manila wants it out ASAP and will not accept further delays.
A G&M editorial regarding the detention of Korvig and Spavor and hope Trudeau should deescalate things with Beijing:
This week’s visit to China by members of the Canada-China Legislative Association helped maintain open channels of communication, but it remained a symbolic visit. Meanwhile, a recent report revealed that neither our Prime Minister nor our Foreign Minister have been able to connect with their counterparts in Beijing since December.
Calls for Canada to escalate sanctions against China at the United Nations or World Trade Organization are morally pleasing, but futile. Yes, Chinese actions are infuriating – but when has a middle power taken on a great power in a fist fight and won?
Solving the crisis requires honesty about its origins, understanding the incentives of the other side and careful strategizing of options and their likely impact. We need to focus on the following key questions: Would such steps have any chance of freeing the two Canadians currently held in retaliation for Ms. Meng’s arrest? Do they have any chance of lifting the sanctions on Canadian farmers hit by sanction after sanction while also facing a difficult U.S. market? Sadly, the answer to both questions is no – and once we accept that, then we need to undertake a good-faith effort to make sense of the current battle.
This is not, after all, routine: This is the highest-stakes confrontation between Canada and China since the start of diplomatic relations in 1970, and is itself a byproduct of the current trade war between the United States and China. President Donald Trump is gambling that U.S.-China trade relations and the global trading system can leverage China into reforming its own trading system and economic model, and also perhaps stop its rise. The most recent U.S. actions against Huawei also signal his administration’s intention to cripple China’s most successful electronics firm. Yet history shows that a purely coercive approach to diplomacy rarely yields lasting positive outcomes with any opponent.
So a brawl is not a path to victory for Canada. This is a chess game with a sophisticated opponent. The current Chinese system is the result of the country’s traumatic pathway to modernity that involved colonization, 50 years of war and invasion, and gradual reform after the death of its mercurial postwar leader. The general trajectory since 1980 has been one of great progress, even if there’s still a long way to go toward a regime that fully respects human rights and the rule of law. We must calculate not just our options, but also the chain of countermoves to any moves Canada might take and their longer-term effects.
Ottawa can start by recognizing that the Meng affair is not a case of rule of law, but a case of application of raw international power by one country against another in the pursuit of its own foreign-policy goals. And for Canada, it is the ultimate curveball vis-a-vis its extradition treaty obligations to the United States. This attempt at “lawfare” marks the first time the United States has sought the arrest of a high-level foreign executive through extradition from a third country for violations of its own national sanctions on a fourth country – in this case, Iran. It is happening in the wake of the United States’ unilateral withdrawal from the UN Security Council-approved Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran and its current extraterritorial pressure campaign against that country. Our European allies support Canada, but are highly critical of the Trump administration’s unilaterally coercive approach to Iran and the Meng arrest.
Canada, then, has an opportunity to maximize the space for internationalists and reformists within the Chinese system, rather than providing easy ammunition to security hawks. The key is to defuse the growing cycle of sanctions and countersanctions, words and counterwords, and to open up space.
First, the Prime Minister should send a high-level envoy to China. A complete and honest recognition of how exceptional the Meng extradition request was, as well as a clear willingness to listen to China’s grievances, would open up space for de-escalation.
Garbage from the Philippines is en route to Canada:
The ship will be the carrying vessel of all 69 containers of trash set to return to Canada.
According to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, the movement of the trash shipments will begin by 12 midnight on Friday (May 31).
The expenses for the return of the trash will be shouldered by the Canadian government estimated at P10 million.
The Canadian trash, composed of toxic wastes, plastic bags, newspaper, and diapers among others, were dumped in the country in batches between 2013 to 2014.
The loads of the other twenty-six (26) containers were already buried in a landfill in Tarlac.
“Finally, (a) proud moment,” said Subic Bay Freeport Zone Administrator Atty. Wilma Eisma in a sigh of relief that finally, the Philippines’ trash row with Canada will be over.
Eisma assured they will be transparent in loading the trash shipment despite earlier advise that members of the media will be barred from taking videos of the containers while being loaded on MV Bavaria.
“The process is very transparent. The documentation for the teams will be very transparent…20 tons per container,” he noted.
Canada was forced to take back the trash shipment after President Rodrigo Duterte in April threatened to “go to war” with the North American country over the issue.
More garbage shipped to Malaysia...
Press release from the Canada.ca website.
Edited by Ominae on May 30th 2019 at 3:35:26 AM
China won't seek further talks with Canada until Meng's released from custody.
I guess Beijing has to fuck off then, giving into them on such a basic international norm isn't acceptable.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Unless the Conservatives and the other parts of the opposition drum up more ruckus about this in Parliament.
Of course, the Tories has shown that they will side with any foreign regime (Saudi Arabia, China, Trump while he tariffs us) if it gets them points to use against the government.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Canadian pork is now banned due to an additive discovered in the meat...
Comes too perfect with the swine flu outbreak
Another one?
Maxine Bernier took photograph with men who were wearing the symbols of the far-right Northern Guard (a Soldiers of Odin offshoot).
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/maxime-bernier-northern-guard-1.5205881
Little wonder he is struggling to poll above 2%
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.I mean, as if anyone needed more proof that the dude is a far-Right sympathizer.
I hold the secrets of the machine.CIFA got to intercept food imports from China.
Y'know, with a name like the People's Party of Canada, you'd be forgiven for thinking they were a socialist party.
And the "Reality has a well-known liberal bias" quote comes to mind.
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."Anyone who's ever heard of Bernier is never gonna mistake him for a socialist.
So if he makes spelling or grammar or arithmetic errors, does that mean it'd be considered "political" to point them out?
Disgusted, but not surprisedAs it's been pointed out, it means a candidate could say they don't believe in quantum physics or gravity and it's be partisan to teach such things.
I still think the wars of leaves, flowers and silver vs gold are particularly... wow.
Culture clash, addictive plant-based goods and just plain WTF.
Edited by Euodiachloris on May 10th 2019 at 3:17:16 PM