Scotty

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it's not legal

This is not true. Most legal experts say it is perfectly possible to seize Russian assets.

It was Russia that started this war and it must be clear that it will have to pay for the destruction it has caused.

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What the EU decided against it for now was to seizure Russian assets as far as I understand. Here - as well as many other funding processes for Ukraine - the grant for Ukraine is funded by the proceeds of Russian assets.

There are many Western officials and experts, however, who have been calling for the seizure. I hope this will be done soon. I must be clear that Russia will have to pay to the destruction it has caused.

Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 1d ago

Yeah, but OP's only interest is a 'Canada bad' post. A misleading but bold headline is perfect for their propaganda despite the content being a nothing burger.

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Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 2d ago

From this comment, one can easily infer that you didn't even read the headline.

Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 2d ago

As an addition a report by the Korean newspaper Koran JoonAng Daliy:

Helping Canada's car sector would be 'good place to start' in submarine bid: Ottawa's defense procurement chief - [Archived link]

Canada's top point man on defense procurement has proposed that Korea offer measures to support Ottawa's faltering auto industry as part of a package deal to clinch Canada's landmark naval submarine project, stressing that auto will be a "good place to start."

Stephen Fuhr, Canada's secretary of state for defense procurement, made the remarks as he recently visited Korea just weeks ahead of the deadline early next month to submit the proposal for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project, valued at around 60 trillion won ($41 billion).

Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 2d ago

The latest information I could find about it is from October 2024. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote back then,

Approximately 100 Canadians are detained in China at any given time on a broad range of offences, ranging from basic infractions (e.g. immigration violations) to more serious charges such as drug trafficking and fraud.

No country except the US has more of its citizens detained in China than Canada.

As an addition: There is an interesting comment by Michael Kovrig from July 2025 when China Secretly Executed Four Canadians.

How Beijing uses the death penalty as diplomatic leverage.

Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 2d ago

there can be local supply chains in Canada that are created out of these investments

I don't think so.

Chinese companies bring their own migrant workers - who then work under slave-like conditions as we have seen in Brazil's BYD plant last year, to name a recent example.

And they also have fully integrated supply chains, meaning they purchase their parts from Chinese suppliers.

The only thing it does is to create hurdles for Canada to rebuild its own car industry.

If Canada want to really create supply chains, it must create ventures with European, Japanese, South Korean producers.

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Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 2d ago

That's a weak content and a highly misleading title.

Putin alone was named over 1,000 times in the Epstein files. They also inlduce multiple references to Iran, ranging from claims of a meeting with a former Iranian president to allegations of arms trading, financial networks, and property links connected to Tehran. Britian's Prince Andrew spent ‘a great deal of time’ with Xi Jinping (here is the original link).

These and other reports are more detailed and concerning than this imo.

Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 2d ago

This rage bait would have a much larger impact if it was not in fact 2 stories above another story about Canada building Chinese EV's to export to the rest of the world.

This is a false assumption.

If if Chinese subsidiaries in Canada would built cars (for export or the domestic markets), Canada and Canadians wouldn't benefit much. Chinese companies bring their own migrant workers - who then work under slave-like conditions as we have seen in Brazil's BYD plant last year, to name a recent example.

And they also have fully integrated supply chains, meaning they purchase their parts from Chinese suppliers.

The only thing it does is to create hurdles for Canada to rebuild its own car industry.

Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 2d ago

For the US that may be true in the long term as its the only direct neighbour.

For China it's not true. As I said, less than 4% of Canadian exports go to China, and 12% of its imports come from China.

At the same time, democratic countries which share similar values play a minimal role so far. The UK has a similar relevance like China as an export partner, but EU members' shares in both exports and imports are mostly 1% or lower. There is a huge potential, and it would help Canada's economy and independence if and when it strengthens its ties with these countries.

China isn't a necessity, and it's not a reliable partner as we have seen so often in the past. Las year Carney himself declared China as "Canada's biggest security threat." He should act accordingly.

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Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 4d ago

Yeah, it must feel good to wake up in the morning as a tankie and know the ultimate truth about everything and how to explain it to us simpletons.

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Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 4d ago

Is this why they ban all foreign media in China?

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Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 4d ago

This has nothing to do with EVs or some poll or your o mine opinion on any topic. The source is deliberately spreading anti-democratic, authoritarian propaganda. It ultimately aims at suppressing any freedom of opinion.

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Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 4d ago

As an addition a personal opinion: I don't mind to engage in trade with China, but I argue that Mr. Carney's Canada-China deal, if not corrected or even deepened, will reap benefits only for one side. And this side is not Canada.

According to the current deal, Canada delivers commodities (canola) to China, but China delivers high-end products (EVs) to Canada. Deals like this will erode the Canadian industrial base further. At its peak almost one generation ago, in 1999, Canada produced more than 3 million cars. Today it produces 1.3 million.

Furthermore, this trade deal will increase Canada's trade deficit with China which already stands at around 40 billion US dollars, according to Comtrade.

While China is Canada's second-largest trading partner (behind the U.S.), less then 4% of Canada's exports go to China (U.S. counts for almost 77%), and 12% of Canadian imports come from China. On the other hand, only 2% of China's imports come from and only 1.3% of China's exports go to Canada.

This means Canada plays an even much smaller role for China than China does for Canada, making Ottawa extremely vulnerable for future political and economic coercion, which is definitely a major part in Beijing's playbook as we have seen in the past.

This is why Canada's future lies elsewhere, namely in trade and economic ties with countries of shared democratic values such as those in Europe, in Australia and New Zealand, in South Korea and Japan.

These democratic countries play a minimal role for Canada both in exports and imports, which means there is a huge potential for the future.

[Edit typo.]

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Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 4d ago

The GT is a Chinese state-controlled propaganda medium.