Based on what Prime Minister Mark Carney, a Liberal cabinet minister, and a Liberal MP said publicly about China’s use of forced labour, the idea they are fiercely criticizing Chinese President Xi Jinping about it in private is laughable.

Indeed, watching the performance of Carney, Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson, and former Conservative, now Liberal, MP Michael Ma on the issue over the past week, would have been hilarious if their milquetoast responses weren’t so alarming.

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Alarming because they were consistent with what Carney himself said Xi personally warned him not to do on the sidelines of the APEC summit last year, which was: “Don’t lecture me in public.”

So much for Carney’s famous Davos speech where he proclaimed that “middle powers” such as Canada, “have the capacity to build a new order that embodies our values, like respect for........

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