If Mark Carney is going to keep gallivanting around the world making trade deals with the world’s worst dictatorships and downplaying their atrocities, could he please stop lecturing Israel about human rights?

Praising China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, among others, in the pursuit of trade, Prime Minister? Seriously?

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In Carney’s own words, we now have a “strategic partnership” with China and “constructive engagement” in areas such as “public safety and security” in co-operation with its law enforcement agencies, a country he described as Canada’s greatest security threat last year.

China has been accused of genocide – including by Canada’s House of Commons – for its brutal repression of its one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, using forced labour, torture and sterilization in “re-education” camps.

It presides over the world’s longest ongoing military occupation – its brutal suppression of Tibet since 1950.

China kidnaps foreign nationals, (see Canada’s two Michaels), imprisons journalists, lawyers and political activists and engages in global transnational repression of dissidents, described as a “genuine scourge” by Canada’s foreign interference........

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