Supply chain resilience must include a break from China

There are now strong national interest and moral imperatives to rethink Canada’s relationship with Communist China, and if we are genuinely interested in supply chain security, then we need to confront the elephant in the room.

Canada has put itself in a position of extreme vulnerability and over-reliance on the importation of critical goods from the world’s leading totalitarian state: Communist China, led by President Xi Jinping, writes Sen. Leo Housakos. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY CONSEVATIVE SENATOR LEO HOUSAKOS

January 18, 2023

Three years after we first started hearing the warnings of a global pandemic, there is no doubt that the world has changed. While it is easy, and for the government perhaps preferable, to blame the pandemic for the challenges that lie ahead, to do so would be dishonest and w...

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