Canada has time to calmly choose its course

I’d make this the first principle in forming Canadian policy toward Chinese interference and I offer it for consideration to special rapporteur David Johnston, who’s due to rapport to the government on the topic shortly. This kind of brainless, panicked, overwrought reaction thrived in the Cold War. The Cold War was about demonization: us good, them evil. For those of us on the margins, it helps to see things more calmly as we choose a course. It turns out that Chinese interference was mainly about suppressing dissent at home in China, via threats to family members still there, not installing a pro-Chinese government in Canada.