PM Urged To Press Human Rights Issue With China

I'm trying to imagine the leaders of China listening to Canada about human rights, but I can't get the picture to come into focus. Now I'm trying to imagine a flea lecturing a grizzly about its behavior. Yes, it's coming now. Doesn't look good, folks.

Maybe you don't quite understand how desperate China is for energy then. Believe me, a country like China who will very quickly, if not already, become a net importer of oil will listen very carefully to countries like Canada if Canada would only realize its true importance to these countries and stop bargaining from a position of weakness all the time.

This also applied to other resources that China will very soon be seeking outside of its borders when the full impact of 1 billion Chinese people consuming like drunk Americans is realized.

The only problem with that hoopoe is that if China, like the USA, just buys us they don't have to make any concessions to us. And to be honest, the entire western world has been drunk with consumption for years, not just the USA? Our own consumption has created human rights abuses through the complete disregard for our planet. I consider that a crime against humanity.

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"Yeah, well, [Mr. President] we used all five fingers because that's the way our mittens are made." Antonia Zerbisias

Given the US record on human rights abuses since
2001 and Canada's silence and complicity, I can't
imagine why China would listen to a lecture from
Canada even if it was also a grizzly. Further human
rights abuses by China are nothing new and Canada
has consistently shown in the past that what matters is
trade, not people. Canada forgot Tianamen Square
pretty quickly once there was cash to be made.

What human rights abuses are you referring to?

Years ago, Canada made more of an effort to address human rights issues. But since 1984 from Mulroney to Chretien to Martin, well I have to agree with anon here and say that Canada has abandoned this. All in the name of globalization and profits. I mean, think about it- can we really rely on Paul SWEATSHIP Martin to speak up for human rights? I mean, our own blemishes include the Peltier extradition, Maher Arar, John Graham, Ipperwash, Oka, Ernst Zundel, and, oh, say, migrant workers who come to Canada to work in the agriculture industry, and some farmers take advantage and pay them even less than minimum wage! Does anyone in government care? No, they just keep telling us that the shit they`re feeding us is good. Oh yeah, the APEC protests just came to mind. Nice people, some of them RCMP, eh?

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Dave Ruston

All of what Dave said AND when Canada invited the biggest murderer and terrorist to our homeland with open pathetic arms and then stopped charges from being laid against him we are all complicit. We are all accessories to murder and genocide as long as we are not going to take a stand against crimes and the criminal. The opportunity we gave up to stand against human rights abuses says all that needs to be said about how Paul Martin, and our disgusting, useless justice minister Irwin Cotler feel about human rights.

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"Yeah, well, [Mr. President] we used all five fingers because that's the way our mittens are made." Antonia Zerbisias

Osama bin Laden was invited to Canada!? When??? Why was there a press blackout on this important event? A full-blown government investigation should be ordered by the uncorrupted elements of the Liberal party. Among other things, we should be told if he was accompanied by the left's other hero, Fidel Castro.

There are uncorrupted elements of the Liberal Party? Really? That is news!

The REAL reason for Missile Defense! The Cold War hasn't really ended - it's simply changed focus. Since the first "energy shortage" of the 70's, the US wrote a blank cheque to it's military, because, when the chips were down, that is what will be required to obtain energy supplies. As a by-product, the US outspent a tired and corrupt USSR, and claimed "victory" over communism.<br />
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But, like Cliff Robertson said in "Three Days of The Condor":<br />
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<a href="http://www.un-official.com/threedaysofcondor.pdf">http://www.un-official.com/threedaysofcondor.pdf</a><br />
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"Huh-uh. Ask them (the people) when they're running out. When it's cold at home and the engines stop and people who aren't used to hunger...go hungry! They won't want us to ask...They'll want us to get it for them."<br />
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It's as simple as that.<p>---<br>RickW

Actually, we meant Bin Laden`s good buddy George Dummy-ya Bush. But somehow I think you knew that.

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Dave Ruston

I knew they had been lovers once, but I thought there was a falling out.

So where's the flaw in that reasoning? And it is refreshing to see an actor in a movie quoted as an authority. Why read books or newspapers anymore? It's all up there on the silver screen, and popcorn is in the lobby.

I would aruge Europe consumes much less.

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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter --

Winston Churchill