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Actually, I don’t think it’s “Canada” per se that is backing Taiwan’s participation in WHO meeting, it’s the Canadian Trade Office who has done it. It sounds like they’ve done an end-run around Trade Minister Anita Anand by doing it without her knowledge! 🤣🤣 Good on them!
Anand is a Carney lackey and they have their orders from Beijing to stay out of Taiwan (or what?? Pray tell). This move puts the Libs on their back foot. I wonder what Anand’s response will be if there is one. Hoping no one notices that one of the departments has openly defied Carney/Beijing?
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Canada has joined eight other countries in reaffirming support for Taiwan’s participation in the work of the World Health Organization and its annual forum, according to a statement by the British Foreign Office.
The Canadian Trade Office in Taipei signed the statement along with the British, Australian, French, German, Japanese, Lithuanian, New Zealand, and Polish offices on May 21. The statement calls Taiwan’s exclusion from the annual...
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Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM
Watching the drama unfold around the referendum discussion is, to me, just so incredibly silly.
I cannot believe we are at a point where we are seriously entertaining theatrics about whether citizens should even be allowed to pose a question, instead of having mature discussions about what the question actually means, the potential consequences, the legal realities, the risks, the benefits, and the broader future of the province and country.
That is what democracy is supposed to be.
Not fear of discussion.
Not attempts to shut conversations down before they even happen.
Not treating citizens like they are incapable of hearing ideas, thinking critically, and making decisions for themselves.
A referendum question is not automatic implementation. It is a mechanism to gauge public support and force public discussion on an issue of significant importance. Democracies should not be afraid of asking questions. If anything, they should be afraid of preventing them.
If...
