Jails are expensive. A new one with 375 beds under construction in Thunder Bay, Ont., comes with a price tag of $1.2 billion.

That's $3,200,000 per inmate.

Maybe we SHOULD build hotels for low-risk inmates instead of these prison cells. A 40 story hotel. How are they going to escape from the 20th floor? That is a very long knotted bed sheet rope. Link 4 together, as a horizontal evacuation route, in case of fire or such. No need to evacuate down to ground level.

There is a strong faction within China that has definitely strongly right wing. China is a 'no party' system, where factions of all positions form the ruling government. This is very evident in the ruling bodies of many of the provinces, where many 'Communist party' governance bodies are very right-wing in many aspects. But overall, the general push in China is to more leisure time and a better work-life balance in the major high wealth cities. Forced labor does not make sense in a country with more workers than jobs available.

But please, explain exactly what your notion is of 'forced labor' in China? How is it different from, say, the labor practices of the 'right to work' States like Alabama, where the wages in a lot of workplaces are basically poverty-level, there is no State limit on hours worked or State minimum wage, and you have to work to survive? I really do not believe that those shouting 'forced labor' really have any concept of what it is, and generally apply the term as a general 'talking point' against the opposition. 'Forced labor' and 'poor working conditions' are not the same. Unions think ALL non-union non-management jobs are 'forced labor', because the worker has no say in the working conditions.

In Alabama, if there were no federal labor law, there would be no law at all. https://labor.alabama.gov/Wage_and_Hour_Info.pdf

Our entire first 100 years as a nation was European based. Please recall, up until the last few decades of our insistence, we were essentially a British colony.

If Africa can keep the American hands off the country, it will happen. Africa gets mega-huge amounts of sunlight, the perfect place for solar farms.

The name says it all - Disinformation.

At least they warn you in their name that what you are about to read is complete disinformation.

Imagine that - a news media who's purpose is to counter facts with disinformation.

The really interesting part of this is what was NOT said.

The Chinese EV's coming over to Canada are arguably far superior to anything made by an American company, so they can not argue against these vehicles based on merit and quality, they have to use inflammatory anti-Chinese rhetoric to argue they should not be brought over.

When China bought controlling interest in Ford International (it was the money from this sale that kept Ford America solvent) er, and Tesla built his mega-plant in China, the detailed knowledge behind the patents on these EV's went with them. In the case of Ford, the actual patent rights came with the sale. The Chinese improved on this knowledge. The irony is that now. when the Chinese vehicles come to Canada, the knowledge behind the patents also comes with them.

Probably the same as any Canadian politician who patched over to anther party. But at least Ma admitted he was playing a political angle, a political game, albeit a Conservative tactic.

Hmmmmm, maybe not so sure on that. Blue is the color of the PC party, Red is the Liberal color Of COURSE the world filter would be blue.

McCuaig-Johnston was a former assistant deputy minister, and as such had the political acumen to defend herself. She was definitely NOT a neutral unbiased independent witness. It is obvious she is vehemently anti-Chinese. She had a political agenda, and Ma had a duty to disrupt it. Ma was certainly not parroting lines from Beijing. In fact, I posit that given Ma's background, that would be the very last thing he would consider doing - If he is older than 42, he was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to Canada when it was still under British rule. Ma's question made it very clear he was talking about Shenzhen, and it was her that twisted, distorted, and obfuscated the dialogue to the Uighur, instead of answering questions about the topic being discussed - the manufacture of EV's in Shenzhen China. The right wing is just sour grapes, still smarting from Ma's patch-over from the PC to Liberal.

No,he is acting for the committee he s on. Given his birth background and subsequent emigration, I doubt if he has any loyalty to the Chinese government.

The Conservatives are very upset that he switched parties, that is obvious. One would wonder what their reaction would be if he were still a conservative.

Politics is politics. To understand the questioning, it must be understood that this witness was NOT selected as an unbiased witness, but was selected specifically BECAUSE of her bias towards the issue, and towards China. She was an assistant deputy minister, which basically means an unelected politician specifically indoctrinated in the policies of the political party in power at the time. Her position was well understood long before she took the stand. There was no hope of getting any unbiased neutral 'facts' from her from the get-go.