The China Trip:

So Justin Trudeau was going to lecture the Chinese on Human Rights, Canadian Style, right after wheeling and dealing on Free Trade.

Wow!! 

Let's see now. What can we teach this society of 1.5 Billion who are currently in the process of evolving away from the chaos of the Chairman Mao era and apparently doing so successfully?

The Chinese appear to be trying to ease their way out of a cumbersome communist system while we Canadians are blindly descending into one by allowing left-wingers and immature academics to lead us away from our personal freedoms to think and act for ourselves. It will not be long before we will be unable to do that without being dragged through those human rights tribunals and law courts.  

Nor, as far as we can tell from here, is China busily paving the way for blurring distinctions between the sexes by allowing aggressive special interest mafias to bully weak-kneed politicians into endorsing their every demand.

Xi Jinping did not exactly seem impressed with our PM. Nor did he seem anxious to wheel and deal on free trade. Could be they sensed Trudeau was on the rebound from not too favourable negotiations on free trade with the Americans and was looking to gain some political leverage elsewhere.

The whole expedition must have been a crushing disappointment to our political tour group which arrived all primed for epic media photo opportunities ready to dazzle the more gullible members of our domestic electorate.