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Colby Cosh: Canada's secret meeting with the Chinese military

Why didn't our bureaucrats want you to know about the Fifth China-Canada Defence Coordination Dialogue last week?

Some of you will have noticed a new and slightly shocking example of Canada’s longstanding case of information constipation: namely, the occurrence of Fifth China-Canada Defence Coordination Dialogue, which took place in Ottawa on Friday of last week. If you are hearing about this for the first time, you may have all kinds of questions. Such as “Canada is coordinating its national defence with China’s?” Or “Why are we doing that?” Or “What would this involve exactly?” Or “This is the fifth time?”

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And perhaps the biggest question of all: why hasn’t Canada officially announced that this happened? Because the People’s Republic of China, for its part, managed to put out a press release the day after the conference took place. Apparently representatives of the two countries “had a candid and in-depth exchange of views on international and regional........

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