The Trudeau Liberals' minority government suffered its first major setback on Dec. 10, world human rights day.
[caption id="attachment_9369" align="alignright" width="215"]
Justin Trudeau, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and Xi Jinping (PMO)[/caption]
The Conservative motion to strike a committee on Canada-China relations passed, with help from other opposition members. Question Period was dominated by issues of trade and diplomacy, from the continued jailing of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor to the Hong Kong democracy movement to the import of deadly fentanyl from China.
On this edition of theBreaker.news, hear highlights from the raucous Question Period, as Trudeau let some of his new cabinet ministers defend the Liberal record on dealing with the world's most-populous and most-controversial country, which former CSIS director Richard Fadden has described as an "adversary."
Plus commentaries and headlines from the Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest.
Click below to listen or go to Apple Podcasts and subscribe. Have you missed an edition of theBreaker.news Podcast? Go to the archive.Support theBreaker.news for as low as $2 a month on Patreon. Find out how. Click here.
For the week of June 9, 2024: The Canadian Football League’s 66th season is underway. The B.C. Lions kick-off the home schedule of their...
This is a Fifth of November certain to remember. Bob Mackin hosts the launch of theBreaker.news podcast, including news headlines from around the Pacific...
For the week of Jan. 28, 2024: One year down, two to go, for British Columbia’s hard drug decriminalization experiment. A Simon Fraser University...