Yes, yes and yes.
Big 10-4 on the gun grab.
Yes, but the second one is a bit more convoluted but has nonetheless pissed off a lot of people. It seems in Winter 2018 we did host some PLA observers. From the Toronto Sun Dec. 11/20...."The Department of National Defence has confirmed China’s People’s Liberation Army was indeed on Canadian soil in February of 2018 for the Canadian Armed Forces winter training exercises. But DND insists they were there merely as observers." “We do not train with the PLA,” a DND spokesperson told the Toronto Sun. “However, based on an agreement signed in 2013, there has been the occasional, reciprocal granting of observer-status for non-sensitive activities, including winter survival exercises.”
https://torontosun.com/news/local-n...-observed-military-exercises-on-canadian-soil
Apparently, this was supposed to happen again in Winter 2019 except Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jonathan Vance countermanded the government "request" this time and cancelled the observation after conferring with US military contacts. I've never been a big fan of Gen. Vance but he did right on that one. There's a lot more to the story of course but that's the nut of it.
Yes, all the while these other unbelievable things are happening we have two Canadian citizens taken hostage in China in retaliation for the arrest of the Huawei CFO here at the Vancouver International Airport and is being held for extradition to face charges in the US. It was after these events that apparently some Canadian Forces soldiers were sent to China to compete in some stupid CCP/PLA games. I am flabbergasted at how this has all been handled and I truly feel a deep sense of foreboding...all of these events up here and including Hunter BIden and the US election make me wonder where this is all headed. Trudeau keeps managing to dodge bullets, scandal after scandal and gaff after gaff. He is such a smug and arrogant POS. When I watch his body language, let alone hear his evasive and outright deceptive BS during televised excerpts from Parliament I have trouble believing this asshat has the top job in the country.
The PLA events are news to us up here. Some of it was definitely kept secret while other stuff just wasn't reported on and we are still in that mode right now. The MSM is downplaying or outright ignoring this story / chain of events. Just like you guys down south and Hunter Biden. This story involving the PLA was broken by Rebel News, probably...no definitely the most hated right wing news agency in Canada and the story has only had a token nod from a few mainstream sources but is basically being allowed to die before being fully fleshed out. I have yet to see a full MSM TV news segment dedicated to it. The MSM is becoming more blatant with their bias by ignoring and not covering important and valid news stories that are unflattering to their chosen political liege. What I find so utterly reprehensible is the fact that next to no one in the MSM are breaking ranks and calling this crap out. It's like the cone of silence from Get Smart has dropped over the whole thing and they're hoping it's far enough to the next election that people will forget.
Scary times indeed. To my knowledge the Canadian government is still dithering over a final decision on whether to allow Huawei hardware into our 5G network despite the fact that the rest of the 5 Eyes have already said no to Huawei. Now, this could be a bargaining chip for the hostages so I'll reserve judgment on that one. I can only hope that as China continues to behave badly around the world and Trudeau, Biden and co don't give them the shove off and continue to play footsie (and I mean western countries need to figure how to exile the CCP) that people who have been soft on these neo-liberal nitwits will smell the coffee and send them packing once they realize they're selling us all down the river.
BUT how would you check? Is anybody checking QC? I mean, they all come sealed-up off the boat... Instead of melamine and lead, maybe polonium and arsenic? 
