Canada's Trade Practices Under Scrutiny

Last week, Canada's Interior Minister, Mélanie Joly, was

in London at Chatham House selling Canada to the assembled

audience as a, quote, "Stable, grown-up,

reliable partner," as opposed to the United States, of course.

But here is how that grown-up partner operates.

Four days ago, the White House put out a report called

The Great

Transshipment Scam, and the president's trade advisor, Peter

Navarro, said the Chinese repackage their goods

into products

that are produced in countries with lower tariffs in order to, quote,

"Smuggle them in." The broadcast was showing just what countries are

involved, and Canada is near the top of the list.

But that's not the only list that Canada is on.

When the administration escalated its tariff strategy back in July,

targeted countries which failed to enforce measures

banning goods produced by forced or slave labor.

Canada is on the shortlist of six countries which failed to

enforce their own laws. Then there are the dirty money flows,

which are the hallmark of the empire's deregulated financial system.

They have a name for the Canadian side of it.

It's called snow washing. Transparency International

Canada put the problem bluntly, quote, "There are more rigorous checks

to obtain a library card than there are to set up a shell

company." And they said this leaves Canada, in their words, with, quote,

"Some of

the weakest corporate transparency laws in the world." And the

money that gets washed is not petty cash.

British Columbia's Cullen Commission, a full public inquiry

whose final report was released in June 2022, documented

what investigators called the Vancouver model.

Cartel and triad money from the Sinaloa and

CGNG cartels and Chinese triads wandered through

casinos, luxury cars, and real estate.

In BC real estate alone, the estimates ran from eight hundred

million to

over five billion a year. Now, if that reminds you of

how the City of London and its offshore Caribbean islands house

drug

cartel and terrorist money, including the IRGC,

it should. That is the empire's business model.

So that's just part of the rap sheet on Canada.

Stable, reliable, grown-up partner, in Minister

Joly's words. So the USMCA fight, the trade

negotiations that everyone is watching, that's one flank.

Canada doesn't cheat on trade because of sloppy enforcement.

It uses trade to erode American economic sovereignty

by design. That isn't a trading partner.

That's an outlaw with a flag staple to it.