CANADA

JIM MILES—While listening to Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, François-Philippe Champagne, after the vote, he at best offered the same old platitudes always offered by Canada, including the tired canard about ‘rule of law’ – rules of law that Canada itself does not follow in particular with the initial focus of discussion on Israel.  Israel’s transgressions of international law and humanitarian law throughout its military occupation of Palestine are seldom if ever discussed or debated.  

ARNOLD AUGUST—As the author suggests, Trudeau’s embarrassing role as a glorified Washington poodle is becoming too obvious even for his gang of apologists to wash away. His government has become a virtual tool of the US Dept of State intrigues against Venezuela

ROBERT BRIDGE—Trudeau, who does not strike me as a chess player, expressed his “extreme concern” at the decision, which really should have come as no surprise. The Schellenberg case was clearly a show trial to give Beijing some leverage in freeing Meng Wanzhou, and now it will be very interesting to see how Trudeau responds. Will he cave in to US demands and extradite Meng, or will he hold onto the Chinese national in a possible exchange agreement for the three Canadians? 

JOHN HELMER—One day after Australia was defeated at the World Health Assembly in a joint effort with the Trump Administration to attack China, and after Beijing retaliated, calling the Australian Government a US puppet, a joke, and chewing-gum on China’s shoe, Australia has telephoned Moscow for help. In a call initiated by Foreign Minister Marise Payne, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was asked to boost Russian imports from Australia and send more Russian tourists to the country.

RICHARD SANDERS—reeland’s tweet praising the role of “our .. grandparents” in WWII needs to spread like wildfire and be used to generate a widespread discussion in Canada. By saying “our .. parents, grandparents .. stepped up to the plate” 75 years ago, on the anniversary of Victory Day, she is putting her grandfather in the same category as those veterans who were on the Allied side against Hitler. Her grandfather was the top Ukrainian-language news propagandist for the Nazis. His newspapers recruited for the Waffen SS Galicia — a Nazi-armed, Nazi-funded, Nazi-led division that fought against our Soviet allies.