It’s been 247 days since China kidnapped two innocent Canadians to use as hostages in its escalating dispute with Canada. Since then, Beijing has also banned a growing number of Canadian agricultural imports, costing Canada’s producers millions of dollars.
So far, Ottawa has done little to respond to these trade offences and seems uninterested in the plight of our hostages.
At each Chinese offence, the Trudeau government has turned the other cheek. Dignified, perhaps, but we’re running out of cheeks. China sees our behaviour as subservient, not civilized. They don’t respect us. The Chinese prize honour — they are afraid to “lose face.” This may be Canada’s only real leverage.
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