In a police state like China you can never predict
the lash that will cause the slave to turn on his master. Neither is it
easy to discern, from all the dirty money greasing so many palms, which
coin in which palm will mark the transaction that buys the final shred
of decency from a democratic country like Canada.
The
billions of dollars in ill-gotten Chinese capital fluttering around
Canada these days is being strewn about by the same corrupt Communist
Party billionaires who bully and persecute the likes of You Minglei, Li
Jie’e, and Zhu Yufu, and who continue to engorge themselves from the
captive labour of the Chinese people.
The
amount of dirty money being poured into Canada by China’s corporate and
Communist Party elites — the terms are almost always wholly
interchangeable — has swollen 15-fold over the past five years. The
primary beneficiaries of this spending spree are the directors and the
shareholders of the companies involved in Canada’s overheated coal, oil
and natural gas industries. There’s always a reason to look the other
way.
. . .from my Ottawa Citizen column.
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