Jennifer Wainwright

[Margaret McCuaig-Johnston 🇨🇦 @M_Johnston1]

The Chinese Embassy is making a clear threat to PM Carney not to raise issues of human rights in China in the upcoming bilat. In response to Carney saying he will raise China’s foreign interference IN CDA (though is silent on human rights again), Beijing says there is none.

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

https://t.co/4egjT7czmx ESSAY: As Taiwan confronts Chinese threats and election interference, Canada’s prime minister understates Ottawa’s exposure to Beijing, while an agreement with Taiwan sits unsigned in his desk.

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

Mark Carney Is Right That the World Is Growing More Dangerous. But Is He Leading Canada Onto the Wrong Side of the Divide?

[Kate Harrison @KatlynHarrison]

"Despite the public dismay conveyed by Carney and Joly Tuesday, sources said the federal government had been engaging directly with both companies, knew the terms of the proposed sale and did not stand in the way of it."

This sequel to the Gordie Howe Bridge sucks. #cdnpoli

[Jennifer Wainwright @Jenrobwain]

“Imagine telling Cdns the $$ they’ve contributed for yrs to prefund their gov’t-run pension is now available to cover the gov’t’s spending whims. Counting it against gov’t debt is like a biz owner claiming to be nearly debt-free by treating the employees’pension fund as savings.”

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

"The chart below sets the IMF’s net and gross debt beside the Public Accounts’ federal-provincial net debt. The years differ slightly, but the gap speaks for itself." https://t.co/8QSyc7s3CR

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Brodie Fenlon just named Lisa Xing CBC’s permanent Beijing correspondent as the public broadcaster reopens its China bureau

Given the pattern in her recent China reporting, expect a lot of the hard story to stay off-camera and off CBC

Her pieces have repeatedly platformed voices from CCP-aligned institutions (such as the Institute of World Development) as neutral “experts” or “professors,” while scrubbing or soft-pedaling the institutional affiliation. The same segments frame Canada’s China pivot as a smart hedge against the U.S./Trump, emphasize record trade numbers in oil, canola, and EVs, and treat the tariff “reprieve” as progress—while the structural realities of Chinese economic coercion, industrial subsidies, forced labor, IP practices, and political interference get the lightest possible treatment or disappear entirely

That matches the tone of today's (pre-Carney trip) CBC trade segment (record Q3 merchandise trade over $36B, Alberta oil and Saskatchewan ag driving most of the gain, Carney’s engagement as a signal of policy shift). Caveats are acknowledged in the abstract (“geopolitics,” “irritants” still pricing out some products), but the through-line remains optimistic re-engagement

Now she will be based in Beijing under the same visa and access regime that forced Fenlon to close the bureau in 2022 after years of non-response from Chinese authorities

Permanent correspondents in mainland China operate inside well-understood constraints: limited access to dissidents, tight controls on sensitive topics (Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, elite politics, foreign influence ops), and the practical reality that sources and travel can be restricted at any time

So the question is straightforward: How much of the actual China file—foreign interference documented by the Hogue inquiry and CSIS, the ongoing repression of Uyghurs and Hong Kongers, military coercion in the South China Sea and around Taiwan, the scale of state-directed industrial policy and surveillance—will make it into regular CBC dispatches from the new bureau, versus more trade-success and “strategic partner” framing?

The appointment itself is the answer many will read into

And how much will be omitted from domestic reporting to keep Carney and Xi happy?@brodiefenlon

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

(Malcolm Mayes cartoon - Edmonton Journal)

[Jennifer Wainwright @Jenrobwain]

Very informative

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

https://t.co/cKUAyMYA5V

[Barbara Bal @BarbaraBalCPC]

💥 Ok, this story is just getting weirder.

CTV News sources say the Carney government was “actively and intensively part of discussions” that led to Stellantis selling its Brampton plant to Roshel. They KNEW the terms of the proposed sale and did not stand in the way.

But yesterday Carney called it a “betrayal” of workers and of Canada, and Joly expressed disappointment.

⁉️ I have so many questions.

👉 WHY the public outrage when they were actively participating?
👉 WHY claim they “never advocated for a deal” when they were intensely involved for months?
👉 WHY did the initial opposition simply vanish?
👉 WHY feign surprise when they already knew the terms?
👉 WHY not take back the ~$24 million in taxpayer dollars that Stellantis offered to return?

NONE of this adds up.

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

Quite the club

[Shane Wenzel @ShaneWenzel]

Going back to the early 2000's, we built a house with the high school students.

Our partnership with Ernest Manning High School came with a home the students designed themselves. We built it with them, and our people gave them career guidance in drafting, interior design, and construction technology along the way.

When the house sold, the profits were shared with the school.

In the photo are Dr. Matt Christison, the principal, and Les Kiffiak, who led drafting, standing with some of the students in front of one of their projects.

The students gained experience and earned money for special programs at the school.

[Lorrie Goldstein @sunlorrie]

EDITORIAL: Our duty on Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day is an obligation that passes down from generation to generation.
https://t.co/TvdFhQURWv

[Dan Knight @DanKnightMMA]

BMO has looked at Carney's immigration numbers and says they don't add up.

Ottawa's official target is 380,000 permanent residents a year.

A senior economist at the bank, Robert Kavcic, went through the 2025 and 2026 budgets. He found special measures that would move about 280,000 temporary residents onto the permanent rolls in 2027. Officials, he writes, have suggested this will be "on top of new admissions."

On top of. Not instead of.

You still get the 380,000 new permanent residents. Then you add 280,000 people who are already here, being made permanent. That's not 380,000. That's 660,000.

BMO now expects the population to grow by about 1 per cent in 2027, nearly double what the bank itself was forecasting. Kavcic called it "an abrupt change in the near-term outlook."

It's abrupt only if you believed the first number.

The government advertises 380,000. A bank looked at the books and got 660,000. I know which one I'm going with.

#cdnpoli

[David Knight Legg @KnightLegg]

Never forgetting those who gave their lives for our freedom.

[Laura Harth @LauraHarth]

“China does not interfere in other countries’ affairs”? Here’s the PRC Embassy in Canada telling Ottawa what it can and cannot talk about. https://t.co/uqWGqDMyaw

[Dean Allison @DeanAllisonMP]

Interesting … he’s been at this for a while …

[Jennifer Wainwright @Jenrobwain]

Honour those who died; never forget why they sacrificed their lives for our freedoms.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Hier, Mark Carney a déclaré que la vente de Stellantis était une « trahison ».

Aujourd’hui, on apprend que son gouvernement était impliqué à chaque étape du processus.

Est-ce donc lui qui a trahi les travailleurs et les contribuables?

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Carney called the Brampton plan a “betrayal of the workers” and “a betrayal of the obligations to Canada”

Joly: “Patience has its limits… Stellantis has decided to go ahead and violate its contract”

If it’s so crystal clear, release the contract! @MarkJCarney @melaniejoly

[Alex Pierson @AlexpiersonAMP]

We sign all these must have deals. Hand billions of tax dollars over on the promise that it will lead to economic utopia, only to see these companies walk away w Canadians holding the bill. You would think at SOME point they would learn. No one does. No one gets fired. But they should. @melaniejoly has proven inept in everything she touches. But @FP_Champagne takes the cake. Plus he’s obnoxiously irritating.