Lorrie Goldstein/Toronto Sun: Carney says we are engaged in a “new strategic partnership” with China — his words when he announced his EV/canola deal in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping in January.
That raises the question of whether the Carney government is slow-walking the foreign lobbyists’ registry so as not to offend our “strategic partners” in Beijing.
There are similar concerns about the secret deal Canada has agreed to on the RCMP co-operating with Chinese police, given the highly controversial nature of these agreements in the past…