Wumao with pro-China bias linked to right-wing U.S. media spreads propaganda in Canada.

With such news this entire Canada-China deal becomes more and more some sort of political satire imo.

When asked what safeguards are in the new MOU that would prevent China from threatening and harassing Canadian residents, RCMP spokesperson Robin Percival said that “mutual respect for sovereignty is a foundational principle” of the agreement.

Mutual respect is a great principle, but Canada needs a different partner for this. (Mark Carney, who named China his country’s biggest security threat not long ago, knows this.)

Not that I think you are capable enough or would even try to understand, but I do not promote this nor any religion or cult. I know next to nothing about these things. But I don’t want China to determine what happens on Canadian soil. This is up to Canada.

Oh, a troll.

The question is do they stick to their trade deals when we disagree on foreign policy.

No, they don’t. As seen literally everywhere in the world.

Oh, yeah, we do know where we stand. The Chinese envoy to Canada has already ‘warned’ Canada to send MPs to Taiwan, just to name an example. The coercion and bullying has already begun. China is a dictatorship and doesn’t care about agreements. It’s at least as unreliable as the U.S.

Yeah, but whatever the US thinks, China for sure isn’t a better partner, probably still even worse.

Oh, yeah, thanks for this. He handed over on January 20, 2021. That’s just another pseudo-intellectual garbage.

How would that ‘roundabout way’ have worked when military applications had already begun spiking in 2022, around the time of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

while there may be a “Trump effect” behind the recent rise in enlistment, military applications had already begun spiking in 2022, around the time of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

I was calculating the % change from December 2025 to the latest month.

Then it’s right. I stand corrected.

If China is a ‘strategic partner,’ then Canada should also be open to deeper integration with the US. Both are unreliable partners.

It’s a trade deal with an unreliable partner, as China shows once again.

I agree that the initial claim of 6.1% is wrong, at least I haven’t a source for that.

Nothing is perfect in Canada nor elsewhere, but I hope most will agree that it’s not the doomsday scenario that is often spread here in this community. This is not to say that many people suffer from hardship and we shouldn’t discuss improvements, but what goes on here is often just anti-Canada (or anti-Western and anti-democratic) propaganda, supposedly laying the ground to portray foreign autocracies as the better solution.

Just a small detail: Canada’s CPI in March is up 1.5 points (not percent), it increased to 167.40 points in March from 165.90 points February.

The cost of living plus rent has increased by 6.1% as of the start of 2026 (before the increase in oil prices and its reverberating effects)

Where do you get this number?

Canada’s headline inflation rate was 2.4% in March 2026, up from 1.8% in February.

The consumer energy inflation swung to 3.9% from the deflation rate of -9.3% in the previous month (and a deflationary period in the entire last 12 months), with transportation inflation being at 3.7% in March versus -0.8% in February.

All data from Statistics Canada.

I don’t want a car made by a Nazi nor made by slave labour. It’s the same thing. You are celebrating the ‘cheap Chinese EVs.’ I don’t.

That’s a small chunk. The largest part of first China-made EVs is reserved for another one.

Tesla’s China-made Model 3 lands in Canada at record-low C$39,490

… Tesla moved quickly to capitalise on the new framework [the Canada-China agreement]. The automaker cleared its remaining US-built Canadian Model 3 inventory back to the United States to make room for Shanghai-built replacements, announcing the revised Canadian lineup on May 1, 2026 …

The title is misleading. The Chinese ruling does not forbid companies from AI-based layoffs as the article explicitly says.

Citing Moshe Lander, economics professor at Concordia University, it says that

the ruling, which was issued ahead of China’s Labour Day on May 1, was likely a messaging and “self-preservation” exercise for the ruling Chinese Communist Party …

Such a ruling would be difficult to enforce, let alone in a democratic country, as the article also says while opening up alternatives:

Simon Blanchette, a management faculty lecturer at McGill University who researches AI and the future of work, said that … “in terms of practicality and the real outcome and externalities of it, it remains to be seen what would be the benefit tangibly" … "I think there other ways we could be exploring to help workers more, and have a more ‘AI-ready’ future.”

The world is watching on their iPhones made I’m factories with suicide nets.

Sadly true. The iPhones are assembled and manufactured in China, too.

If interested, there are two documentaries about that, among others:

From 2025: How Tim Cook sold out Apple to China - (YT video, 44 min)

Before becoming CEO, Cook built Apple’s vast Chinese supply chain — training millions of workers and investing billions in infrastructure — giving the company unmatched manufacturing power but also a deep reliance on China’s authoritarian system (alternative Invidious link)

And and older one, from 2021:

How Tim Cook surrendered Apple to the Chinese government - (YT video)

Apple is making billions of dollars integrating into countries with authoritarian regimes. Even if it means helping to cement the power of the ruling elite or enabling egregious abuse of human rights. And there doesn’t seem to be anything Apple wouldn’t do for the sake of growth and expansion. Apple cites compliance with local laws as the reason for giving human rights abuse a go. But the actions of the most valuable company in the world go far beyond compliance with the law (alternative Invidious link)