Canadian Politics Today

WTF! What you call "weasel words" are words agreed to by all G7 leaders - get a grip hey member wilber!

meanwhile that standard Conservative ploy is to claim Canada isn't "standing up to China"... while at the same time continuing to charge the government is abysmally failing to bring home "the 2 Michael's". Typically Conservative!

That's just politics, the fate of the Micheals cannot influence the way we approach China.  Canada is not sticking up to China. There has to be a common front regarding China, not just words, or it will just play one country off against the other. Australia stands up to China and is punished. Canada rushes in to take Australia's place and then shakes in its boots so it won't get punished, because it knows no one else will stick up for it. That's the way China works.