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China blocks canola shipments from Canada's Richardson: customs document

BEIJING/KABUL (Reuters) - China has cancelled major Canadian agribusiness Richardson International Ltd's registration to ship canola to China, according to a document listing approved exporters posted on the website of the Chinese customs administration on March 1.

It wasn't immediately clear why Richardson's exports into China, the world's top importer of canola, had been halted. Officials at China's General Administration of Customs didn't respond to requests for comment.
But the move comes amid heightened tensions between the two countries in a dispute over trade and telecoms technology that has ensnared the chief financial officer of the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker, Huawei Technologies Ltd, who faces U.S. criminal charges.
The March 1 customs document is a revised version of a notice first posted on Jan. 14. A note beside the entry for Richardson International in the latest document says, "Canola export registration already cancelled".
A Canadian grain industry source with knowledge of the matter confirmed Richardson's exports of canola to China had been halted. The person declined to be identified citing the sensitivity of the matter.
A lasting block on Richardson's canola exports would be a headache for Canada's biggest grain handler and a potential blow for the Canadian economy as a whole.
Oilseeds like canola, fruit and grain are Canada's biggest China export category, making up nearly 17 percent of all exports in 2017, the latest annual data available, according to the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
(For a graphic on 'Canada to China exports' click https://tmsnrt.rs/2Urb9et)
Spokespeople at Richardson's headquarters in Canada couldn't be reached outside normal business hours.
Canada's embassy in Beijing referred Reuters' request for comment to government officials in Ottawa.
CANADIAN CANOLA, AUSTRALIAN COAL
In the escalating diplomatic row with Canada, China has detained two Canadians working in China, and on Monday accused one of them of stealing Chinese state secrets from the other.
There had already been reports last month that Canadian canola shipments to China had been slow to clear customs amid the dispute.
China buys some C$2.5 billion ($1.88 billion) of Canadian canola per year, and a slower sales pace would be another hit to exporters, which also include Viterra and Cargill Ltd in a year when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces a tough race for re-election.
The restriction on imports of canola from a country with which links have worsened echoes recent moves by Chinese customs to slow clearing of Australian coal imports.
Australia's ties with China have deteriorated since 2017, when Canberra accused China of meddling in its domestic affairs.
Tensions rose again last month after Australia rescinded the visa of a prominent Chinese businessman, just months after barring Huawei from supplying equipment to its 5G broadband network.
($1 = 1.3331 Canadian dollars)
 

spilledthebeer

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China blocks canola shipments from Canada's Richardson: customs document


China - Canada CRISIS????????????????????


WHAT????????????????????????????


Are Cdns being refused service at local Chinese food restaurants????????????????????????????


The ONLY CRISIS here is the one involving LIE-berals who DO NOT WANT the Justin Trudope love affair with Soviet Socialist ideology to become known to all Cdns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


THE ENTIRE TRUDOPE CLAN has a HUGELY UNHEALTHY AFFECTION FOR ALL THINGS SOVIET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But DONT WORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The Chinese Crisis will blow over just as soon as Our idiot Boy discovers that Huawei CEO Meng is SUING CANADA - claiming that her CANADIAN CIVIL RIGHTS were VIOLATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Our idiot Boy will give her $10.5 million dollars and send her on her way with our "sincere: apologies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Crisis AVERTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




With that in mind let us have a look at the thoughts of Sacha Trudeau- who has explained in GREAT DETAIL -the friendship between the Trudope clan and bloody handed Soviet dictator Castro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




For those who don’t believe that the Trudeau`s-father and sons were and are raving socialist revolutionaries who want to destroy conventional `imperialist` Canada- which the younger generation calls “ white privilege” - I supply here a letter written by Sacha Trudeau-the brother of our prime minister that Boy with nice hair-for Brains.

Sacha wrote his `love letter to his old pal-the bloody handed communist Cuban leader Castro and it was printed (with serious intent and straight face yet!) by the Toronto (Red) Star newspaper. The Sacha letter was such a gag inducing/lose your lunch at the hypocrisy type document that the National Post picked it up and lampooned it with wonderful sarcasm!

I here present Sacha's love letter to hard line communist Castro as printed in the
National Post: 

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 rid the world of a political system that slaughtered tens of millions in purges, and sentenced hundreds of millions more to economic slavery. Less consequentially, communism's demise also spared the world of arts and letters one of the most appalling literary tropes known to history: the mythic communist hagiography.

If you've ever traveled to a communist nation, or read its official histories, you will know they run something like this: Great Leader was born a poor villager in the country's heartland. At the age of four, he single-handedly killed a pack of wolves that threatened his town. At the age of eight, he invented a new kind of rifle. At the age of 12, he heroically denounced his own parents as counter revolutionaries. A prodigious autodidact, Great Leader became an expert in every subject -- agriculture, warfare, economics -- and tirelessly applied his intellect to advance the glorious revolution. And so on.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, this messianic propaganda style has survived in just two places -- North Korea and Cuba. Or so I thought, until I woke up on Sunday and spotted a museum-quality specimen devoted to Fidel Castro on the pages of the Toronto Star. Had I seen it in The Onion, I would have thought it a fine parody. But the persistently earnest author -- none other than Alexandre ("Sacha") Trudeau -- apparently meant every word.

The legacy of Castro is well-summarized in a recent report by Human Rights Watch: "Cuba remains a Latin American anomaly: an undemocratic government that represses nearly all forms of political dissent. President Fidel Castro, now in his 47th year in power ... continues to enforce political conformity using criminal prosecutions, long- and short-term detentions [and] mob harassment ... The end result is that Cubans are systematically denied basic rights to free expression, association, assembly, privacy, movement, and due process of law."

But those sticks-in-the-mud at Human Rights Watch apparently don't know the real Fidel. Writing on August 13, Castro's 80th birthday, Sacha lovingly described the kindly attentions Cuba's leader once lavished on his late brother Michel, whom the despot nicknamed "Micha-Miche." When Michael was eight years old, we learn, he complained to his mother that he had fewer friends than his brothers. Reports Sacha: "My mother told him that, unlike us, he had the greatest friend of all: He had Fidel."

Such soothing words. Would that we all had a communist tyrant to call our pal.

Sacha's article is full of this sort of maudlin recollection, so much so that one is reminded of the purple love letters Nikolai Bukharin wrote to Stalin from prison in the (vain) hope of winning his freedom. The main difference is that Sacha doesn't have the excuse of imprisonment. He wrote his ode to Cuba's prison-keeper from a nation whose people enjoy freedoms that Cubans can scarcely imagine.

Space forbids a full recitation of Sacha's jaw-droppers, but here are some highlights.

Cuba's Great Leader, we are told, "lives to learn and put his knowledge in the service of the revolution." He is "famous for not sleeping, instead spending the night studying and learning." "His intellect is one of the most broad and complete that can be found." Moreover, Fidel is "a great adventurer," "a great scientific mind," "the most curious man I have ever met," "an expert on genetics, on automobile combustion engines, on stock markets, on everything," not to mention the world's "most audacious and brilliant" leader.

Or, to put it more succinctly, "He is something of a superman" -- a description Sacha justifies with a comic-book propaganda story in which the fat dictator dives 20 metres down into the ocean (without scuba gear!) to collect sea urchins for the Trudeau family's delectation.

Only when we get to the 18th paragraph does Sacha interrupt his sensuous rhapsodies to admit that Cubans "do occasionally complain." But such complaints are akin to "an adolescent [who] might complain about a too strict and demanding father."

In other words, Fidel's single flaw is that he loves too much.

If this were all there were to Sacha's article, then it would merely constitute the unintentionally comic ramblings of a son who still believes the Cuban agitprop passed on to him from his departed daddy -- nonsense that even most Cubans stopped believing decades ago. But his Star essay went beyond that, into something much creepier.

I am thinking in particular of these two lines:

z "Fidel may seem an anachronism: a visionary statesman in a world where his kind have long since been replaced by mere managers, a 20th-century icon still present in the 21st century."

z "With the possible exception of Nelson Mandela, already well into retirement, Fidel is the last of the global patriarchs. Reason, revolution and virtue are becoming more and more distant and abstract concepts." (My emphasis in both cases.)

Since the 1980s, Latin America has undergone a stunning transformation. In the time of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, autocratic police states were the norm, democracy the exception. Now it is the opposite, and only Cuba and Venezuela stand as blots on an otherwise democratic landscape. It is one of the most inspiring political transformations of our time. Yet to Sacha, all of these freely elected leaders are "mere managers." For they lack the "machismo and vigour" that can only emanate from a "revolutionary" regime -- which is to say, a community tyranny.

Throughout the 20th century, there were many other ideologues who preferred "reason, revolution and virtue" to the boring give-and-take of democratic politics and due process. Their ranks included not only murdering despots such as Lenin, Mao and Castro himself, but also starry-eyed fellow travellers and apologists such as Sartre, Fanon and Trudeau pere. Thankfully, the failure of the Soviet experiment has driven both tribes into history's dustbin.

Sacha is a rare exception. Yet from the casual way he throws out his nauseating obsequies, he doesn't appear to understand just how historically discredited his message has become. He is more than naive -- he is ignorant.

The saddest part of it is that Sacha is not an insubstantial intellect: In recent years, he has become a respected journalist, civil libertarian and activist. But there are limits to what even an accomplished person may say and still be taken seriously. What Sacha has written here is so ludicrous that it puts into question everything he's said or will say. Now that he's written this glowing tribute to a dictator with blood on his hands, for instance, why should we believe his repeated claims that this or that Arab terrorism suspect is innocent? Why should we believe his reporting from Iraq, for that matter? If the romantic glory of "revolution" is all that matters in Sacha's political universe, surely jihadis are "supermen," too, no?

Sacha is still a young man -- perhaps young enough to rebound from this blunder if he's more careful with his words. But for that to happen, the naive affection for Fidel bequeathed to him by his father should become the love that dare not speak its name.

jkay@nationalpost.com

- Jonathan Kay is Managing Editor for Comment at the National Post.

SACHA TRUDEAU ON FIDEL CASTRO

'Fidel is the most curious man that I have ever met. He wants to know all there is to be known. He is famous for not sleeping, instead spending the night studying and learning.'

'His intellect is one of the most broad that can be found. He is an expert on genetics, on automobile combustion engines, on stock markets. On everything.'

'Combined with a Herculean physique and extraordinary courage, this monumental intellect makes Fidel the giant that he is.'

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ON FIDEL CASTRO

'Cuba remains a Latin American anomaly: an undemocratic government that represses nearly all forms of political dissent.'

'President Fidel Castro, now in his 47th year in power ... continues to enforce political conformity using criminal prosecutions, detentions [and] mob harassment'

'Cubans are systematically denied basic rights to free expression, association, assembly, privacy, movement, and due process of law'
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Justin Trudeau has turned into Rodney Dangerfield... no respect.

"There's a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime."-JT.

Apparently that's not all China can turn around on a dime. Not having to worry about inconveniences like ethics, trade standards, and rule of law, China is free to treat Trudeau, and Canada any way it damn well feels like. Lil' potato would be wise take note and learn his lesson....rule of law and ethics is pretty important when you're on the receiving end of the crap.

I wonder how much admiration Trudeau has for their basic dictatorship now?
 

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China blocks canola shipments from Canada's Richardson: customs document

Another devastating blow to Western Canada, the worlds single largest producer of canola in the world. This on top of new carbon taxes, decreasing potash demand, decreasing uranium demand, and systematic destruction of the natural resource industry by enviro-zealots and our Government. Wonder what laws or ethical values Trudeau is considering to break in order to save Western Canadian jobs.

A study released in 2017 shows Canadian-grown canola contributes $26.7 billion to the Canadian economy each year, including more than 250,000 Canadian jobs and $11.2 billion in wages.

https://www.saskcanola.com/industry/
 

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"There's a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime."-JT.

Apparently that's not all China can turn around on a dime. Not having to worry about inconveniences like ethics, trade standards, and rule of law, China is free to treat Trudeau, and Canada any way it damn well feels like. Lil' potato would be wise take note and learn his lesson....rule of law and ethics is pretty important when you're on the receiving end of the crap.

I wonder how much admiration Trudeau has for their basic dictatorship now?




Our idiot Boy is not smart enough to change his mind like that on such a fundamental issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



As for the Cdn convicted of drug dealing in China................the guy ALREADY HAS ARRESTS and CONVICTIONS for drug dealing here in Canada on the west coast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


How much sympathy should we offer to the guy?????????????????????????


I say NOT MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Our idiot Boy comes from a family of NASTY SOVIET Socialist BIGOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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Another devastating blow to Western Canada, the worlds single largest producer of canola in the world. This on top of new carbon taxes, decreasing potash demand, decreasing uranium demand, and systematic destruction of the natural resource industry by enviro-zealots and our Government. Wonder what laws or ethical values Trudeau is considering to break in order to save Western Canadian jobs.

A study released in 2017 shows Canadian-grown canola contributes $26.7 billion to the Canadian economy each year, including more than 250,000 Canadian jobs and $11.2 billion in wages.

https://www.saskcanola.com/industry/
Isn't doing business with china in itself an ethical lapse?
 

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"There's a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime."-JT.

Apparently that's not all China can turn around on a dime. Not having to worry about inconveniences like ethics, trade standards, and rule of law, China is free to treat Trudeau, and Canada any way it damn well feels like. Lil' potato would be wise take note and learn his lesson....rule of law and ethics is pretty important when you're on the receiving end of the crap.

I wonder how much admiration Trudeau has for their basic dictatorship now?


I think that the Liberal Party would just prefer that this story is not talked about. There is a myth to uphold.
 

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"There's a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime."-JT.
Apparently that's not all China can turn around on a dime. Not having to worry about inconveniences like ethics, trade standards, and rule of law, China is free to treat Trudeau, and Canada any way it damn well feels like. Lil' potato would be wise take note and learn his lesson....rule of law and ethics is pretty important when you're on the receiving end of the crap.
I wonder how much admiration Trudeau has for their basic dictatorship now?
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This "crisis" was created triggered by the AMERICAN request. The US is a big part of this mess. China is lashing out at CDA........for reasons of their own. One thing is certain. CDA makes a soft and easy target.

Is this what CDA gets for helping the US?? Of course. The last two years the Trump US has shwon it has no use for its allies and neighbors. The only ones trump cares about are Kim, Putin and the Saudi murderer in Prince.
 

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This "crisis" was created triggered by the AMERICAN request. The US is a big part of this mess. China is lashing out at CDA........for reasons of their own. One thing is certain. CDA makes a soft and easy target.

Is this what CDA gets for helping the US?? Of course. The last two years the Trump US has shwon it has no use for its allies and neighbors. The only ones trump cares about are Kim, Putin and the Saudi murderer in Prince.
Why is Canada Soft ? Why are we Easy ?
 

Hoid

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Rather than a crisis I would say this is an opportunity.

We can use this whole episode to shine a light on this abusive and corrupt regime.

**** the money. We don't need that kind of money.

We will be fine with or without Chinese trade.
 

spilledthebeer

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Isn't doing business with china in itself an ethical lapse?




POOR STUPID HOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


His big bag of twisted LIE-beral values keeps tripping him up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



LIE-berals CHEERED when Richard Nixon went off to Beijing to start the process of engagement with China!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And LIE-berals CHEERED WILDLY every time LIE-beral Jean Chretien led his Team Canada gang to Beijing for another costly dog and pony show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And LIE-berals SNEERED at Conservative Harper because he dared to be reluctant to fully engage with China due to civil rights violations while LIE-berals IGNORED various reports of growing Chinese govt repression and use of slave labour to produce products for the west!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And now we have Hoid trying frantically to save some small part of the reputation of Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hoid now asks if engagement with China "is an ethical lapse"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hopid illustrates exactly what LIE-berals like Our idiot Boy RESPECT ABOUT CHINESE SOVIETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hoid wants to claim the Soviet entitlement that allows them to RE-WRITE HISTORY to suit the needs of the moment and save their leaders from embarrassment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Hoid is afraid I am right-- now that Huawei chief Meng has SUED us for violating her CANADIAN CIVIL RIGHTS - Our idiot Boy now has the PERFECT EXCUSE LET HER GO BACK TO CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But if Our idiot Boy releases Meng- who stands accused of violating United Nations sanctions against the LUNATICS in Iran..........
then HOW will idiot Boy ever get free of the labels reading SOVIET STOOGE and USEFUL IDIOT?????????????????????


Our idiot Boy is TRAPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


He HATES Yankees.................................and has profound respect for Soviet leaders - including Chinese Communists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Idiot Boy wants to let Meng go.....................but is TERRIFIED of the political fallout of sucking up to Soviet Bullies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



And HOID desperately wants to re-write history so his LIE-beral party sponsors come off looking slightly less SLEAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Hoid

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Also - let's have a look at what the Americans have on this person.

It seems to be forgotten that at the core of this issue is her guilt or innocence.
 

spilledthebeer

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Also - let's have a look at what the Americans have on this person.

It seems to be forgotten that at the core of this issue is her guilt or innocence.


POOR STUPID HOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Frantically trying to get LIE-berals OFF THE HOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It is NOT the business of a Cdn court to decide Mengs guilt or innocence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Canada LACKS the intelligence gathering resources to judge Meng and Huawei!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Either the Our idiot Boy will honour the LONG STANDING extradition treaty between Canada and United States!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Or he will pull ANOTHER OMAR KHADR STYLE INSULT and release Meng back to China due to her "rights" being violated - rights that China DOES NOT RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If Meng is released - many LIE-berals will cheer this alleged Canadian "independence" of but Our idiot Boy will FURTHER ENRAGE our allies in the process and persuade our allies we are NOT to be trusted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What a PROUD DAY that will be...................FOR LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Our idiot Boy is very dedicated to a rule of law that allows him to do as he pleases!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And what pleases Our idiot Boy most is INSULTING white people generally and Yankees specifically!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It is entertainment for him but it AINT a successful re-election strategy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!