When Conservative leadership hopeful Derek Sloan released a video on social media claiming that Canada’s chief medical officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, was actually a foreign agent working for China, what evidence did he have?
None at all.
When we find ourselves in a political time when even someone as respected as Dr. Tam can be seen as a foreign agent solely because of their race, we know it’s a scary time for all Canadians of Chinese and Asian descent.
There is little denying that comments such as Sloan’s contribute to a climate of danger. Chinese and Asian Canadians are facing increasing hate crimes, from the assault of seniors to the abuse of frontline health care workers.
Equally serious, the unsubstantiated notion that the leading health official in Canada is a foreign agent risks undermining the credibility of nationwide efforts to confront and combat COVID-19.
The Conservatives need to denounce Sloan’s comments immediately, and Sloan should most certainly apologize to Canadians for his outrageous, racist, and frankly seditious remarks. And we must certainly do all that we can to force them to do so.
But of course, Sloan’s comments don’t exist in a vacuum. They are part of a larger current of thought that seeks to reshape and reduce the COVID-19 narrative to the culpability of China, Chinese people and those who look Asian. (more...)
Today, a special issue of The Epoch Times with the headline "How the Chinese Communist Party Endangered the World" was slipped into the mail slot of my apartment. This publication, a known propaganda outlet of the CIA, has never been delivered to me before. This foreign psychological operations organ appears to be in a full court press to sway public opinion against the Chinese diaspora. I find this new cold war propaganda most repugnant and reflective of a moral void in the parties responsible for such hate-mongering.
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