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Bottom line. McCallum accepted an impossibly stupid mission. He got caught. And Trudeau and his government disavowed all knowledge of his involvement. John McCallum did not resign, he was fired by Trudeau for being caught doing Trudeau’s bidding. For Trudeau and the Liberals, it is all about winning this upcoming election and turning Asian-Ontario swing ridings to the Liberals and retaining existing Asian-dominated Liberal ridings. That is why McCallum gave a 40-minute speech to only local Chinese-speaking newspapers in the Asian-dominated town of Markham about why McCallum and the Trudeau Liberals thought Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei CFO had a strong...

TORONTO (CP) - Ontario is playing a "dangerous" game and adding fuel to separatist fires by claiming it is treated unfairly by the minority federal government, National Revenue Minister John McCallum said Thursday. McCallum didn't pull any punches in a breakfast speech to the Toronto Board of Trade, calling Premier Dalton McGuinty's claims of a $23-billion fiscal gap "analytically wrong" and nothing more than a public relations campaign. "Let's not talk about the $23 billion gap because it's nationally dangerous, and it's incorrect and not meaningful as an indicator of fairness or unfairness," he said. "It is a communications strategy...

Canada has welcomed the recent US proposal to create a NATO rapid reaction force, but critics claim the nation's shrinking defence budget will simply not stretch far enough to contribute. The NATO strike force concept was unveiled by the US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at last month's meeting of NATO defence ministers in Warsaw. He proposed a body of 20,000 troops on call for quick deployment anywhere in the world. In Canada's case, many believe that after years of defence spending cuts, the nation has little left to offer such a force. At September's meeting of NATO ministers in Warsaw,...