Moonlight Graham

Western countries and Muslim middle-eastern countries can finally find agreement on a shared enemy: China.

You teach courses right? I need to take your class.

Capitalism is the best economic system in human history. Discuss.

Who would you rather bang though?

Yes people litter on my street all the time. It's disgusting. A lot of it in the spring is a build up from over the winter, then the snow thaws and 4 months of littering is revealed in all its glory.

An upside-down flag is a universal sign of distress. ie: If your ship is sinking and you fly a flag you turn it upside down to warn of distress to get help.

We can never expect our governments to enact decent privacy laws against tech companies. It's not in the government's interests. They want access to as much mass surveillance as possible.

They already have cameras in our home to track us, and microphones. It's all on our phones and other smart devices. 3 cheers to those idiots who install Google Home and those smart doorbell cameras.

In-camera means private.

Do you want the government to know where you are at all times? Whose house you may have visited. I know they can already have this knowledge, but I don't support it.

John McMallum, a former MP from Markham, was recently fired by Trudeau as Canada's ambassador to China because he was working in China's interests rather than Canada's. It's already happening.

True yes. We just need to be aware that the Chinese gov has been very aggressive in their espionage against us over the last few decades and as they get richer and more powerful I assume that is only increasing. They're becoming the new Soviets, only they have 1.4 billion people and a huge diaspora and will likely soon become the richest country on the planet. We're entering a new Cold War and it's scary.

Here's the problem in Canada and other countries: if you live in Canada but have family still living in China and you criticize the Chinese gov on social media or otherwise go against China, they can visit a relative of yours in China and intimidate them in order to coerce you to shut up or do whatever they want you to do. They've done this on the past. That's a serious national security issue for us. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/17/think-of-your-family-china-threatens-european-citizens-over-xinjiang-protests It's also wrong to discriminate against Chinese immigrants or ban them from migrating to Canada because of this. Quite the pickle we're in. Unfortunately, the Chinese gov is using our kindness and human rights against us.

I never called all Chinese people "rats". Read what i've wrote again. I have Chinese-Canadian friends, they aren't rats.

How am I supposed to know how old they are. And so no, I said implicated about your grandkids. All Chinese people in Canada aren't "rats", only the ones who put the interests of China above the interests of Canada and harm our national security.

I totally agree. Let's not mistake ordinary people vs a totalitarian government with bad intentions. We had little input on these policies. These decisions were made for us by our governments, who sold out to corporate interests in the name of the mighty dollar. This has been predicted for decades and now it's a reality. Many, including myself, have been criticizing the US gov for doing some crappy things to other countries, it's time for those same people to say the same of China.

The fact is, if you have an otherwise lawbiding person who is hired/paid or coerced into cooperating with the Chinese government and then they immigrate to Canada to spy for them or whatnot, it's extremely hard and often impossible to detect them. Unless they're caught breaking the law. So we're in a bit of a pickle. I guess we have to hope that mass surveillance is doing its job.

Are your grandkids loyal to Canada, or are they loyal to China and the Chinese Communist Party? Anyone living in Canada as a Canadian citizen but willfully helping a foreign government to the detriment of Canada's national security is a rat and a traitor. "You people" huh? Guess you're no better than Don Cherry. BTW I don't commit genocide, nor do I neglect human rights. So yeah I'm 100000x better than that a-hole Jinping. Keep on rockin' in the free world!

I think they have bad intentions, but i don't think they're crazy. They want what is best for China. Destroying their own economy and that of their business partners makes no rational sense for them. This is hurting us as much as it's hurting them. It's probably hurting them even more. IMO the most likely scenario is that this was leaked by accident from their disease lab in Wuhan.

I just don't think the virus outbreak was intentional. There's no motive that makes sense.

If you're under quarantine, some people do leave. Some people can't be trusted.

This story is really quite disturbing. We have rats living amongst us. I'm not surprised though, this is exactly what I've been talking about. This may be a reason why the Chinese gov lied about the virus. It gave them a chance to grab worldwide stock of PPE while other countries didn't see the threat as bad as it actually was, thus didn't secure their own stock. Our government looks like fools sending them PPE in Feb. This is also one of the reasons why I don't believe in dual citizenship. When sh!t hits the fan, Canadians should be loyal only to Canada by law and oath. The United Front of China should be eliminated from within Canada. China can't be allowed to get away with this. There needs to be repercussions for their actions which have cost many countries more lives and endangered many more. I'm quite willing to suffer financial hardship for Canada to move business away from China. I'd consider it my patriotic duty.

And how is he going to do that? He's not a 3rd world dictator that has corrupt control of the military in his back pocket.

Then everyone will be wearing masks when they leave the house and go shopping, despite what the WHO says, because people aren't stupid and they don't want to die.

The WHO still doesn't recommend any travel restrictions btw.