Liberal MP John McKay is urging Canada to revamp its engagement policies toward Beijing due to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persistent human rights abuses despite Western democracies’ previous overtures.
“China is on the way to becoming an existential threat to Canada and other like-minded nations that conduct their affairs by the rule of law and democratic norms. We need to ditch our current strategy because it is based on the hope that China might adhere to the rules,” Mr. McKay wrote in an op-ed published in National Post on July 17.
He described the communist regime as a “bullyboy,” pointing to the numerous atrocities it has committed, including the forced organ harvesting and persecution of Falun Gong adherents, the enslavement of Uyghur Muslims, the abuse of Tibetans, and the destruction of Christians’ places of worship….