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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Even in a situation where everything you wrote were granted, there is nothing in it at all that makes for an existential threat to Canada. Nothing.
On the topic at hand, the government needs to take the concerns raised by the leaks and other violations of Canadian laws seriously and to protect Canadian institutions. Those concerns are important, worth investigating and worth cleaning up any illegal activity as well as putting in new protections against anything found, but that's about it. Canada's not facing a threat to its survival in any of this. In reality, it's a relationship with far more pros than cons, not a death match.
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From a Canadian perspective having a dictator in Xi controlling global trade and commerce and having control of the most advanced chips from Taiwan is pretty existential to Canadian / North American life over the long term. Xi’s a dictator that’s not even accountable to his own people let anyone else in the world community.
China already intrudes too far into Canadian interests, it steals our IP, it has attempted to control its diaspora population living in Canada through coercion as evidenced by the stations in many Canadian cities, it’s meddling in our democratic process as evidenced in recent elections. It’s only a net positive relationship when it’s only transactional - Canada sells resources and expertise and China sells back goods manufactured at lower prices than could be attained elsewhere.