Ottawa needs to engage more with Taiwan as communist China escalates its efforts to take over the self-ruled democracy by force, said MP Garnett Genuis, who also warned of Beijing’s methods to exert influence on Canadian soil.
The Conservative MP for Sherwood Park–Fort Saskatchewan, made the remarks in an interview with The Epoch Times while addressing a number of issues impacting Canada-China relations, at a time when Beijing is taking an increasingly assertive stance against Canada and its democratic allies.
Genuis, who serves as his party’s shadow minister for international development, also called on Ottawa to do more to guard against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to influence Chinese diasporas in Canada, and encroach on their rights and freedoms….