"That’s the way the #Harper government...announced that it had decided to ignore widespread public opposition, parliamentary opposition from the #NDP, Greens and even lukewarm #Liberal criticism, an ongoing #FirstNations legal challenge, and even division at its own cabinet table and grassroots membership and proceed with the ratification of the #Canada - #China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement ( #FIPA )."

https://canadians.org/analysis/harper-sneaks-through-canada-china-fipa-locks-canada-31-years/

Shout-out to @davidakin for this, from one of his newsletter links:

https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/chinas-global-influence-campaign-joshua-kurlantzick?utm_campaign=David%20Akin%27s%20%F0%9F%87%A8%F0%9F%87%A6%20Roundup&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

"My sense is that China has consciously decided over the last decade or so, to try to use media power to influence politics in other countries. Can you tell me a little bit about what China has been doing, and why it's pursuing these efforts?"

Why, yes, this *is* a blatant honeypot post, to flush out the foreign state bad actors on #Mastodon, who want to try and falsely accuse me of being "racist" again.

Fuck #FIPA. I hope every Chinese troll who posted "ivermectin" on Twitter in 2021 drops dead in the street from BF.7. If that makes me "a racist" IDGAF.

#FIPA scuppered a WORKING tuberculosis vaccine from deployment ACROSS THE FACE OF THE FUCKING EARTH by the way.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cansino-mcmaster-vaccine-partnership-1.6327254

I say again: Fuck #FIPA. It's not the concentration camp tomatoes that are the problem here. ( https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1969150531680 for context)

Read the transcript I linked to at the top.

/43 Here is another article on details of the deal #FIPA - Harper / O'Toole - https://canucklaw.ca/a-look-back-at-fipa-and-selling-sovereignty-to-china/

/42 win for China, not for Canada. If Canada wanted to back out of a deal on any said policy within the deal i.e. pipelines, vaccines, etc., Canada is on the hook for millions/billions of $$. Canada could also be brought in to International Criminal Court for failing to meet requirements of said deal. Here is a news article, about 1 issue that came up - Pandemic: https://thinkpol.ca/2020/12/18/canada-on-the-hook-for-chinese-firms-pandemic-losses-under-trade-agreement-otoole-championed/ #FIPA #OToole

/41 Poilievre, O'Toole, Scheer, Fast were all involved in the FIPA 31 year agreement that Stephen Harper rushed to push through and signed in RUSSIA. All the issues we have been having with China come from this agreement.

Under the #FIPA deal that #OToole (as trade minister) and Harper, worked out with China - 31 year locked in deal, there was provisions for Vaccine manufacturing, oil pipelines, mining, Cell Network (Huawei), Agriculture and many other products and services.

This deal was a