Comments by "firstandforemost87" (@firstandforemost87) on "China sees Canada as a minor country it can push around, former ambassador says" video.

  1. Canadians aren’t prepared to suffer in the short term to benefit in the long term. We talk a big game, but that’s all it is.
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  2. A CB “Those students mean significant incomes for universities and landlords” Nobody said doing the right thing is easy. How much did we just skewer ourselves economically resisting the spread of Covid. Also, the profit motive having taken over universities is part of the problem, and before you say ‘what about the research funding’ go take a look at the costs of post secondary administration. It isn’t about funding for research...
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  3. sean w Quality production. Local jobs. Self sufficiency. Retained human capital. Delayed/softened capital deepening. Less dirty $ being washed in our real estate markets and greater access to housing markets for Canadians (thx for the fentanyl and the bloated housing market China!). The benefit of not being a nation of hypocritical consumer whores who talk a big game about ‘values’ and ‘compassion’ while bending over for a regime that stands in opposition to everything we (supposedly) stand for. To name a few... In the end it’s really about principle. We are a nation of hypocrites; content with playing patron to (what most Canadians would call) racial and social and environmental and civil injustice on an industrial scale, just so long as we don’t have to see or experience it. And it’s all in the name of consumerism.
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  4. Darlene Sjostrom Wow Darlene, with the way you talk about the US you would think it was them, and not China, who flooded the continent with fentanyl, used its housing markets to wash the illicit proceeds for their political/criminal elite (jacking up housing costs in the process), and then lied the world into the Pandemic. The US and Canada get along just fine, which is surprising given our smug and holier than thou disposition toward them. Salivating over our wealth? What wealth? We have a 10th of the population of the US and still the vast majority of Canadians are two weeks away from insolvency. Sure the US competes with us economically. They look out for their own, and so does China. Canada could learn a thing or two from both of them.
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  5. Evan Levy We don’t need universities for the bulk of the ‘education’ they provide anymore. In many ways they are outdated and archaic institutions that need to get with the times, not unlike public schools. The revelations surrounding remote work and learning as a result of Covid have proven much of the ‘education’ lobby wrong about how ppl learn. Whatever future meaningful research funding is lost to the exit of Chinese students could be recouped with an approach to educational investment that actually represents an investment (ie strategically investing in the right minds and fields with a focus on ‘return’ in the form of high productivity human capital and innovation).
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  6. coolspot18 How much of that drug cost difference is a product of an expired patent? Was the patent still intact while production was domestic?
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  7. janis vogel It’s a shame your reading comprehension skills are so poor Janis. And you’re correct, I don’t approve of China having intentionally enabled the spread of the virus internationally for the sake of levelling the economic and geopolitical playing field after they let their invisible monster out of its cage. Do you?
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  8. J Battler Another commenter said “Whites are not true Canadians” and then demanded they and the Chinese leave, and you pick Phix to accuse of racism for calling somebody a troll bot?
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