I hope nobody labors under any illusion that Canadians don’t know what’s going on with this Chinese pandemic. It’s only our political leadership and a few Chinese lobby groups (who are widely despised even by most Chinese-Canadians as obvious commie symps) who bang on about no connection to China.
That horse left the barn a few months ago and isn’t coming back. But John Tory (mayor of Toronto) has a large Chinese community that he thinks he might be serving by saying these soothing words no matter how ridiculous they sound. In any case, nobody’s blaming Chinese Canadians for the virus, most of them have been here two or three generations now and a large proportion are from Taiwan or Hong Kong, or fled the PRC many years ago. We do have some more recent Chinese arrivals who are probably plants in the first wave of colonization as they see things, and only the useful idiots in our media fail to recognize what’s going on with that.
It’s the same in America, but I suspect Canadians (leftists at least) are more gullible and willing to make nice with these objectionable people (meaning the communist agents and spies who have been descending on us in recent years).
The more established Chinese Canadian community knew what was up in January — they all cancelled their Chinese new year events in large Canadian cities and stopped travelling to China. I am sure they heard through their contacts what was really happening in China. However, that has not stopped a number of flights from China in the pandemic period, and on those flights I suspect there are agents of the Chinese government tasked with spreading this virus into our countries. And our idiot government probably knew this but took no action. Oh wait, they did take some action, they called people like me racists for pointing this out. I stand uncorrected.
” It’s only our political leadership...”
You can say the same thing about the US, and yet the people keep reelecting those dorks.