Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the Chinese regime is a threat to both Canada and the United States, and the two countries should “look at the big picture” instead of treating each other as rivals.
Poilievre made his comments during a speech on Canada-U.S. relations at the Foreign Policy Association in New York on March 19.
The Tory leader noted that the West erred in allowing the Chinese communist regime to “sneak up on us” shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
“Beijing’s communist regime was able to pursue economic enrichment without the corresponding political liberalization that the West had expected. And then one day, the West woke up, and we found that much of our industrial cart lands had been hollowed out,” Poilievre said….