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Why do we allow Zoom to operate in our country? It's a Chinese government controlled corporation. Today I read that a Chinese worker in California has been arrested by US authorities for monitoring and closing down commemorative zoom meetings about Tiananmine square on orders from China. Why not close it down? Why is Alibaba and Tencent allowed to operate in the West? China does not allow Amazon or Facebook to operate in their country. Why do we allow China to buy Western companies, and if we do why do we deal with them? Yesterday I learned that the private company Canada uses to gather information for the purpose of granting visas is partly owned by the Chinese government. Do we care? Only after outside pressure and ridicule did the government decide not to grant a Chinese company the right to supply x-ray machines to our embassies. Does no one in our government understand security implications?

No....Canadians have their own biased narrative... same as the Americans. Bashing the U.S. is great for domestic politics. Nations states have interests...not friends. Canada gladly accepts and very much desires American collaboration on many fronts...including COVID-19 vaccine production and logistics.

Was kicked out of Social Studies in high school . . . the teacher was obsessed with everything Egypt. Asked him why we weren't learning anything about Canada, considering most of us would live, work, and pay taxes, and die here. Made the mistake of also mentioning that if I wanted to know anything about Egypt, I'd buy a postcard. Kicked out, but made me a student of Canadian history, especially western Canada. Agree . . . . Dominion Day !

And there's another one following in that vein of hypocrisy by choosing to ignore that doesn't get any attention. Rich leftist donors found ways of getting around election laws. Zuckerberg was the most blatant example because he found a way of using a "charity" to finance how the election took place and thus hire agents to manage the process. But the mainstream media doesn't think you need to know about that. Dinesh D'Zouza explains:

From your link: Initial results in the reliably Republican county in northern Michigan showed Joe Biden with a 7,769-4,509 lead, which was changed to a 9,783-7,289 Trump lead two days later and eventually a 9,748-5,960 margin for Trump. Seems to me if your going to rig the system to give Biden a win you wouldn't rig it to give more votes to trump.

Ah so, but was built by bigger men than us...

We're going to have to choose between national security OR money. So far we've chosen money. Companies only care about money, that's their job. They will change their products and PR to suck up to China, because if they don't China will punish them. What Westerners have to do then is also punish western companies who do these kinds of things by speaking out and stop buying their products since money is what they listen to.

I mean, given the choice I would rather go with Russia. At least for the women.

The US federal Democratic Party has yet to find its Putin. ==== James Clyburn made Joe Biden President. This system is not sustainable.

Maybe it's in the nature of conservatism to not be content with second or third best, to not be satisfied with what we have. Then again, that's a personality trait which motivates people like me to keep plugging away and not be content with being a security guard or something like that (which I was for a time). We are not a united country. Quebec stays here because it's not economically feasible to leave without taking a huge hit to their standard of living, but there's no sense of patriotism or even interest in Canada beyond Quebec. The natives appear to want nothing to do with us except for (like Quebec) our money. Now we're bringing in literally millions of foreigners who will have little opportunity to assimilate nor encouragement to do so. A country with no sense of common purpose, no sense of shared history is a country waiting to break apart at the first heavy stress. Our economy sputters along under the enormous weight of government bureaucracy and regulation, and heavy taxes, so much less than it could be, making us so much less richer than we could be. And the economy is the life blood of a society for it pays for everything you need to make that society function. We have no actual defenses against either civil strife or foreign attack (including by cyberwarfare). We have no military, to speak, very few police, and every computer system I'm aware of, from power grids to government to banks and industry is third or fourth rate, an open book and easily penetrated by almost any foreign government that wants to do so. And all of the above things are getting worse, not better. How many peple think the future: ten or twenty or thirty years from now, will be better than last year? Not very bloody many. Muddling along is okay when times are great, but I suspect they are going to be less so in future.

1. It's a little Lewis Carroll but... the mediocrity is sometimes better than the alternatives like the dizzying highs and lows of the Venezuela and the Iran. Maybe we muddle through, I don't know. 2. I was thinking that I disagree with you but I think I agree with you. Mediocrity is, I maintain, better than highs and lows. But I agree that we could be so much better, so so much. We are by some counts the best in the world and yet I feel a tiny tweak in attitudes of Canadians, ie. stop being smug and comparing endlessly to the US.

You're not listening. Or perhaps not reading properly. Do you think 'the system' we currently have in place is the same as the system which built Canada? Do you think a nonentity like Trudeau could ever have been prime minister even as recently as his father's day?

But that is not the case at all....not economically...not culturally...and not for defence. The U.S. (and other independently minded nations) have already sanctioned China when needed. For some reason, Canada remains very timid with China ostensibly because of canola and pig farmers. The "two Michaels" are already detained, so grow a pair. What to do about China ? Impose sanctions...deport diplomats...cancel visas...etc., etc., without having to depend on backup from the U.S. or any other nation. This Trudeau government appears very weak compared even to Liberal governments of the past, and China will continue to exploit this weakness. Hell, cut Meng loose if you think China will deal. Just...do...something.

Based on handling of a pandemic, the likes of which we haven't seen in 100 years ? I have no way to evaluate the performance on anything but a broad assessment. Both my premier (Ford) and my PM (Trudeau) are being second guessed about this but I can't see either have failed. As for unity, I don't sense that it's any different than before. People from the West demonized Chretien too. I don't think any of the opposition parties have been counter-productive either.

Ah the good ol' NKVD...they'll make you want to fight the Germans, alright.

In WW II most Soviet soldiers were more terrified of their own politruks behind the lines than the enemy soldiers. With a good reason too. Going forward meant a high risk of getting killed. Going backwards meant a certainty of being executed.

Joe Biden, like Chernenko, is the desperate attempt to preserve a method of politics.

Whatever their faults, the Russian people defeated two psychopaths who wanted to control all Europeans: Napoleon and Hitler. The British can take credit for being suspicious of continental scams, bubbles, one-size-fits-all solutions - and actively getting involved. ==== Swedes can take credit for stopping the Thirty Years War.