China’s shadow looms over so much in Canadian society – from public health to the rule of law to domestic politics, as these recent stories highlight, to real estate, national security, espionage and more, as the past couple of years have made clear.

Yet you wouldn’t know it from the way the Liberal government talks about China. 

Thankfully, Parliamentarians led by a motion from Conservative MP Erin O’Toole have forced the issue and this overdue conversation is finally getting underway with the creation of a special House of Commons committee looking into the Canada-China relationship.

Read True North’s Anthony Furey’s latest in the Toronto Sun.

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