No it can't. If it could be done Harper would have done it.
The Prime Minister of Canada cannot give approvals on First Nations lands or on BC government lands or on fish bearing streams or on municipal lands or on park lands....the list is long
Trudeau Goes to China
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The Prime Minister of Canada cannot give approvals on First Nations lands or on BC government lands or on fish bearing streams or on municipal lands or on park lands....the list is long
I'm for free trade with China, but totally opposed to extending that to Chinese state-owned enterprises.
Unfortunately, Canada needs China more than China needs Canada, China knows this, and so China will apply maximum pressure on Canada.
If Canada is thinking strategically, it should promote free trade with Hong Kong (but only on the condition that Hong Kong maintains its present Basic Law adhering to the ICCPR. Should Canada send the message that it will trade with any ICCPR-compliant state (even though granted Canada itself does not do so), then this would significantly reduce the pressure on Canada to trade with China.
That said, Canadian patriots have to be prepared to give up their sacred cows. No more forced Canadian Content, no more forced agricultural supply-management system, no more corporate bailouts, and no more prohibition on private healthcare operating side by side with public health care.
Canada cannot have its cake and eat it too. We are a country with a small population and thus small political and economic clout in the world. If we want to trade with ICCPR-compliant jurisdictions instead of with China, then Canada will need to play fair with them. If we're not going to play fair with them, then sorry, but China and Canada deserve one another.
Unfortunately, Canada needs China more than China needs Canada, China knows this, and so China will apply maximum pressure on Canada.
If Canada is thinking strategically, it should promote free trade with Hong Kong (but only on the condition that Hong Kong maintains its present Basic Law adhering to the ICCPR. Should Canada send the message that it will trade with any ICCPR-compliant state (even though granted Canada itself does not do so), then this would significantly reduce the pressure on Canada to trade with China.
That said, Canadian patriots have to be prepared to give up their sacred cows. No more forced Canadian Content, no more forced agricultural supply-management system, no more corporate bailouts, and no more prohibition on private healthcare operating side by side with public health care.
Canada cannot have its cake and eat it too. We are a country with a small population and thus small political and economic clout in the world. If we want to trade with ICCPR-compliant jurisdictions instead of with China, then Canada will need to play fair with them. If we're not going to play fair with them, then sorry, but China and Canada deserve one another.
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook made his first appearance at China’s World Internet Conference, using the surprise keynote to call for future internet and AI technologies to be infused with privacy, security and humanity.
Cook made the comments on Sunday at the opening ceremony for the conference -- an event designed to globally promote the country’s vision of a more censored and controlled internet. It’s the second Chinese appearance in two months for the executive, who met with President Xi Jinping in October.
“The theme of this conference -- developing a digital economy for openness and shared benefits -- is a vision we at Apple share,” Cook said. “We are proud to have worked alongside many of our partners in China to help build a community that will join a common future in cyberspace."
Cook and Google chief executive Sundar Pichai are both making their first trips to the event. The attendance of leaders from two of the world’s most valuable tech giants lends credibility to China’s efforts to influence the global internet so it better resembles its own.
Cook’s comments come at a pivotal point for the company’s future in China, which is now its biggest market outside of North America. It relies on the sale of hardware and services in the world’s most populated country to propel revenue and profit growth. But the efforts required to stay in China’s good graces are causing tensions with civil libertarians and politicians at home.
He said Apple’s operations in the country began three decades ago with a handful of employees. Today, it helps support more than 5 million jobs in China, including 1.8 million local mobile app developers, he added.
Apple has come under fire for cooperating with Chinese authorities in removing apps that give users there uncensored communications. In November, Apple complied with government orders to pull Microsoft Corp.’s Skype phone and video service from the Chinese version of its popular app store. Cook used an earnings call with investors to justify such moves, saying it obeyed the laws of the markets where it operates.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ave-security-humanity-apple-chief-tells-china
Cook made the comments on Sunday at the opening ceremony for the conference -- an event designed to globally promote the country’s vision of a more censored and controlled internet. It’s the second Chinese appearance in two months for the executive, who met with President Xi Jinping in October.
“The theme of this conference -- developing a digital economy for openness and shared benefits -- is a vision we at Apple share,” Cook said. “We are proud to have worked alongside many of our partners in China to help build a community that will join a common future in cyberspace."
Cook and Google chief executive Sundar Pichai are both making their first trips to the event. The attendance of leaders from two of the world’s most valuable tech giants lends credibility to China’s efforts to influence the global internet so it better resembles its own.
Cook’s comments come at a pivotal point for the company’s future in China, which is now its biggest market outside of North America. It relies on the sale of hardware and services in the world’s most populated country to propel revenue and profit growth. But the efforts required to stay in China’s good graces are causing tensions with civil libertarians and politicians at home.
He said Apple’s operations in the country began three decades ago with a handful of employees. Today, it helps support more than 5 million jobs in China, including 1.8 million local mobile app developers, he added.
Apple has come under fire for cooperating with Chinese authorities in removing apps that give users there uncensored communications. In November, Apple complied with government orders to pull Microsoft Corp.’s Skype phone and video service from the Chinese version of its popular app store. Cook used an earnings call with investors to justify such moves, saying it obeyed the laws of the markets where it operates.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ave-security-humanity-apple-chief-tells-china
That's where I got it from that Harper could I can't find it on the web maybe someone else knows what I'm talking about and can help out. A little sticky in B.C. but they certainly can if it is viewed in the best interest for Canadian's, It's in the treaties for the rest of the country.
edit: found it
Ottawa could push pipelines through B.C.: legal experts
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No. That was a Reuters story and I guess Apple appeared in the link as a tag..........
Why there won’t be a ‘progressive’ Canada-China trade deal
The federal Liberals are dreaming if they think skeptical Canadians will buy the official line on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s sudden visit to China.
While Canadians settled in for the Grey Cup game last Sunday, the PMO announced that Trudeau will be in Beijing this week for talks about “a progressive trade agenda” as well as “frank dialogue on human rights issues like good governance, freedom of speech and the rule of law.”
Frank dialogue on human rights? Based on my past experience as a counsellor at the Canadian embassy in Beijing, I can safely say that Canadians should well be worried.
Beijing has made clear it will not abide aspirations of a “progressive trade agenda.” Inserting clauses on human rights, the environment or regulatory transparency into a free-trade negotiation is a non-starter.
This is a regime that demands Canadian companies operating in China transfer technology and intellectual property rights to their Chinese state partners. A free-trade deal won’t change that. No such “progressive” conditions appear in free-trade agreements with New Zealand or Australia. Why would Beijing give a minor global player like Canada special consideration?
Ottawa’s report this year on the “Public consultations on a possible Canada-China FTA has a long list of concerns cited by businesses that have had arbitrary taxes, import duties and “new” internal regulations imposed on them as their Chinese state partners squeezed them out of the Chinese market. The report strongly contradicts Trudeau’s optimism that a China free-trade agreement will benefit Canada and should be taken seriously.
Beijing is unyielding that non-economic factors have no place in trade deals. If Canada wants enhanced access to China’s huge market, it must toe Beijing’s line on non-contact with Tibet’s Dalai Lama, stay silent about threats to democracy in Hong Kong or Taiwan, drop objections to China’s development of military facilities in the international waters of the South China Sea and submit to Chinese espionage in Canada.
All this amid ever-increasing reports of aggressive menacing of Canadian citizens of Chinese origin to get them to comply with and serve the interests of the “motherland.”
So, what more does China hope to get in a free-trade agreement?
more
https://theconversation.com/why-there-wont-be-a-progressive-canada-china-trade-deal-88450
Seriously, you didn't expect an answer from OB, did you? She doesn't understand stuff like this. At any rate, it's cheap entertainment.
How about we just build it and tell the anti work crowd to go piss up a rope? Kinder Morgan and the building trades unions should at least start a court case against any villages that are withholding permits for lost income.
Canada has vast quantities of natural resources while China mostly has cheap labour and no environmental rules to speak of.That gives us much more clout than you seem to think.
True, but with its large population, it must consume more too. Perhaps production per capita might give us a more accurate comparison.