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I doubt it. Most likely the request has to be honoured under the extradition treaty agreement.

You can conjure conspiracy theories if it's your predilection to do so. It's an easy and often intellectually lazy form of putdown. However, what we're talking about here is much more concrete. When a former federal finance minister, Joe Oliver, who himself was a member of a government that promoted economic globalization, warns that "the [Trudeau] government intends to embark on this radical lurch to an uncertain future without a debate in Parliament, let alone any public consultation", perhaps it's wise to take note. Other apparently more sensible democracies, including the U.S. and Australia, are giving this pact a swerve. But, for Trudeau's crowd, what's not to like about a pact that promotes censorship and government-mandated narratives among other shiny social engineering schemes preferred by today's uber-progressive tribe? Call it whatever you like, but much of the pact's verbiage is clearly not consistent with democratic principles.

First, will Canada follow through and extradite Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou? It should, for the good of the West. Finally, the U.S. has woken up. Wealthy people who live in unfree and illiberal countries want and need access to the West or life would be miserable. They want access to New York City and Toronto for business and entertainment. Beijing and Shanghai have nothing to match Wall Street, Bay Street or either country's live theater and music. Excerpt from NY Times article Meng Wanzhou Was Huawei’s Professional Face, Until Her Arrest: The Chinese are upset about these events. See Huawei Arrest Tests China’s Leaders as Fear and Anger Grip Elite: Indeed, it's good that they should worry. Theft is theft; I am getting tired of diplomats who are more interested in their popularity at cocktail parties with their adversaries than protecting their own country.

I know what it is. And I've been following it for years. It's filled with activists on a mission.

The most powerless and smallest minority group of all is the individual. Any individual who has been assaulted deserves the same response from the justice system against the perpetrators of the crime, whatever the race or gender of either victim or perpetrator. Any ideas that do not fulfill this basic reality are fundamentally unjust, because crimes are fundamentally committed by and against individuals. The individual criminals did the crime, and the individual victims were the ones targeted. Period.

Is that all Canadians like you can think about is Trump-Trump-Trump? Trump is worth billions. What are you worth? You probably cannot even rub two toonies together. No doubt because Trudeau-Trudeau-Trudeau took your two toonies away from you and blew them on himself. Ha-ha-ha.

The extradition process is well defined by both nations, and will not be revisited just because Canada is nervous about (or afraid of) ...China. ...sure didn't help Conrad Black very much.

Not really. The problem is usually that the term racist is thrown around so much that's its lost all its meaning. Everything is racist now. If liberal wimpy types hadn't over used it for ridiculous reasons, it may actually still carry some weight.

This is primarily a legal matter so I would expect our government to let the legal process take its course, unlike in China. One problem for the Americans is dual criminality - the offence must exist in Canada as well as the US. Our sanctions against Iran are quite different from theirs which may be why they want to charge her with fraud for lying about Huawei’s business in Iran rather than for conducting the actual business. This may take years to resolve. Secondly, the Chi-Coms are not known for being good sports. Random Canadians may be detained over yonder and charges found for them afterwards. Our efforts to curb the tsunami of Chinese fentanyl flowing into this country may have just run into a serious problem. Given the shenanigans Huawei get up to across the world, it is unfortunate that the Americans had to pick such an obscure case to charge them with and involve us in it.

Word on the street was, start world war 3 under some pretense of either Russia vs China or US vs Russia and China, wipe out a good chunk of the population, start again and use the pretense of ending all war with a one world order....

You can read similarities into anything. But just because Hitler liked dogs and so does someone else, that really doesn't present anything but a superficial commonality. People's suspicion of Muslims has arisen in the last thirty odd years largely because of Muslim actions, not because some nefarious cabal has undertaken a propaganda campaign against them. The suspicions are a response to real world actions, not imagined out of dark suspicion of the 'other'. And they have been inflamed by the growing number of Muslims flooding into western countries and retaining old-world beliefs and values. When two thirds of Canadians complain that immigrants aren't assimilating fast enough they're really talking about Muslims.

Unfortunately, you're wrong. A lot of the Chiefs would argue that, because their power and privilege and wealth derives from being the leader of that community. And a lot of the Left would argue that moving a community or combining a community, or bringing a community in closer to urban centres full of non-natives would threaten their culture. The problem is their culture, such as it is, is not a substitute for a thriving economy. And without jobs people have no purpose in their lives. What good does your culture do then? Gonna wear a cultural headdress and costume while you shoot up? Trying the kind of major reform of the band system would be as much of a shitstorm as reforming health care or the justice system. Which is why politicians won't do it. They operate in four year increments. They have no interest in starting a project which won't bear rewards and accolades within that four year period. They most especially have no interest in starting a program which will be expensive, lead to turmoil, upheaval and much bad publicity and which won't bear fruit until AFTER the next election. PS. by the way, Rue, we don't send people to federal prison for minor crimes. Sure most of what natives do is minor, just like for everyone else. But the number of natives in federal prison indicates much of that crime is considerably more severe.

Okay great. If you have any suggestions for how to set up the One World Government, please let me know. We can hold off on throwing you all into gulags until after Christmas. Rest assured.

You can bring that up to your globalist friends when you meet them.

Start with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and World Trade Organization (WTO). Tell them that Trump sent you....

So where do the ‘globalists’ hang out? Is there a club with memberships? Wouldn’t mind checking it out.

Yes, Marx was a gifted economist, but had very poor grasp of human nature. Not unusual in an idealist - who expects other idealists to share at least some of his ideals - such as integrity. There simply hasn't been a Marxist system that actually worked as he envisioned since people are so greedy and corrupt they do what greedy, corrupt people with extreme amounts of power from the privilege of office will do. Yes, Trudeau Sr. was fairly bright, but extremely communist (i.e. screwed up mentally). Yes, you can be smart but in the wrong direction. Trudeau Jr. I don't think has the intellectual gift to even be a good WalMart greeter - but I wish he would pursue that opportunity.

Of course, how that plays out is good with YOUR money, or someone else's?

A one week fluctuation in the stock market is hardly an indictment against the President. That’s the epitome of a small sample size being used against a data set that’s a couple orders of magnitude larger. FYI the market is actually down because Trump is standing up to China. Even lyin Chuck Schumer supports Trump’s stance against Chinese intellectual property theft, etc.

I think our economic and political elites are very happy to see ethno-racial-cultural-religious divisions develop as these conflicts detract from any kind of cohesive reaction to the wrenching economic and social changes that are being imposed by the agenda of corporate globalism. These conflicts provide those in charge with a rationale to impose "solutions" that reinforce their broader agenda. The Western middle class is being eviscerated without much more than a whimper on the part of those being displaced, although we are seeing some pushback in places like France and America's rust belt. Perhaps my perspective, grounded in Marxian analytical logic, is old-fashioned in the context of today's progressives, who've sold out to post-intellectual neo-Marxian identitarianism. But I think it's the self-styled progressives who are being duped and transformed into useful idiots in support of an agenda they don't fully recognize or understand.

Sage caution from Joe Oliver: "Trudeau should not sign this attempt at international social engineering without extensive public consultation and a debate in Parliament." I don't think people realize how radical the globalist agenda that Trudeau supports has become. When I discuss the issue with others I often notice that eyes glaze over. Few can believe that politicians are transforming the country into a gigantic social laboratory. A lot simply can't comprehend the extent of the sunny ruse to which we/they are being subjected. The social support system ordinary Canadians fought to establish in the post-WWII era simply won't withstand the stress of an open border, particularly because the subsidy class will explode in size. Trying to support this system under the current model will result in a reaction that will make the 'yellow vests' protest by lower-income taxpaying workers in France look like child's play. Those of us living in the most apparent Canadian laboratories for this experiment, the Toronto and Vancouver regions, are already experiencing many of the emerging problems. Populations in these regions are, according to polling, the most unhappy in the country. This won't end well.

There are a lot of weird conservative wimpy types now. They can't stand it when people say they don't like something. They absolutely freak out and jump on the table if people call them racist, for saying racist things.

The only way to change now is to force ourselves. And for us that means forcing ourselves to stop shipping fossil fuels, starting with coal from Northern BC. We can project our force abroad as well by applying economic sanctions against any deadbeats that try to pick up that slack. We're approaching the point where force will likely be the only option available.

Ok, so they seem to include other gender types in that report. I do see the ones specifically for Trans and I think that also needs a more succinct definition of what 'trans' is. The sample group is 5000 which includes all of these gender types. It's called perspective. If First Nations people experience more hate, then that might be a bigger issue to tackle before we tackle the LBGQT (how many more letters should I add)? I'd also like to see stats for Canada and compare. Yep, that person was born a man and is at least a foot taller than the women in that picture and has them by about 100, possibly 150 lbs. That person in physical contact sports would destroy most women. As in many sports, things would only change once severe injuries are sustained on a regular basis.

U.S. unemployment rate has fallen to lowest level in 49 years at 3.7%....more winning for President Trump.

America's millennial voters better get their butts to the polling booth....or else:

If you want to cut your wrists and bleed out on the land to appease the natives, feel free. The rest of us won't give a damn for your histrionic gestures at more than your idiotic drama queen suggestions.