Are you kidding! Canada is selling potash to a country that violates human rights?
Theoratically China has
no choice but to buy Potash from us as fertilizers to feed one-quarter of mankind and Canada could gouge the Chinese on price if they want to since Canada has the largest reserve base.
Don't count on it though cause the Canadians are simply too nice by stereotype and default to some extent to man up in front of the new "bully" on the block like China.
They may act tough only when the soverign funds from China, with billions of USD at disposal to become big institutional investors, up to the 20% ownership at POT (not weed), similar to what they are doing at Teck Resources. This could happen sooner than you think if BHP ever starts friendly takeover battle to POT and the Chinese came in to bid up the price.
What does Bob Rae and Jack Layton have to say about that?
The two reminds of gay men who do not have guts to come out of the closet, meaning Communism in
true spirit are in their blood instead of pretending to be friendly to bourgeoisie.
The metaphor is equally applicable to the Chinese Communists, except they have fear to come out of the closet and live like rapacious, ruthless, self-centred, soulless Capitalists, instead of pretending to be a champion for river crab
Both groups do
not want others to challenge their legitimacy.
We should never trade with countries that violate human rights (like shooting kidnappers on sight).
Sounds like Israel fits the category like China and the Israelis have no qualm to utilize "bang-bang" to the Palestinian hostage takers, aka 2nd shot on his head to make sure he's dead seconds after the hostage was rescued.
But wait a min, unlike the Chinese it's a big risk/extremely sensistive to critize them without being labelled as Anti-Semite or worse tacit endorsement of genoicide by default.