TRUDEAU HAS ZERO CREDIBILITY ON CHINA

In the ongoing freefall of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s credibility in the matter of his government’s opaque relationships with Xi Jinping’s China, there is a discernible pattern, a kind of a script that plays itself out that has so far protected Trudeau and his inner circle from being irreparably damaged by overwhelming public disgust and revulsion.

That the pantomime has worked so successfully and for so long is as disturbing as it is remarkable, but at last, the jig is up. The last straw will be remembered as Trudeau’s equivocations and dissembling about the Xi regime’s savage oppression of the Muslim peoples of Xinjiang, which Trudeau invited us all to interrogate this week as a discursive problematization of the word “genocide.”

“We are extremely concerned about that and have highlighted our concerns many times. But when it comes to the application of the very specific word ‘genocide’, we simply need to ensure that all the I’s are dotted and the T’s are crossed in the processes before a determination like that is made,” Trudeau told reporters on Tuesday. “It’s a word that is extremely loaded and is certainly something that we should be looking at in the case of the Uyghurs.”

There should be no surprise Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he needs more evidence before concluding China’s horrific treatment of its minority Uyghur Muslim population is a genocide, despite having agreed two years ago that Canada’s treatment of its Indigenous population was a genocide.